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Regency Household: Sheraton Secretary and Bookcase

By Anne | July 30, 2021 - 7:05 am |August 14, 2021 Regency Household

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This design for a secretary and bookcase appeared in Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book (1793). For more Sheraton designs see these posts: Regency Continue →

Regency Dish: Haddocks the Spanish Way

By Anne | July 26, 2021 - 7:48 am |August 10, 2021 Regency Dish

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– The Art of Cookery (1803) This looks considerably different from modern Spanish style haddock, which now favors tomatoes in the stew with paprika and Continue →

Regency Estates: Mount Edgcumbe

By Anne | July 24, 2021 - 6:46 am |August 15, 2021 Regency Estates

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Excerpt from “Mount Edgcumbe: A Poem” by Cyrus Redding (1811). With a country park spreading over 860 acres on the Rame Peninsula in South Continue →

Regency Hot Spots: The Shakespeare Gallery

By Anne | July 22, 2021 - 6:39 am |August 10, 2021 Regency Hot Spots

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Initiated in November 1786, the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery at 52 Pall Mall was the brain child of engraver and publisher John Boydell who, hoping to Continue →