Regency Hot Spots: Mr. Sass’s Academy
New Picture of London (1830) Sass’s Academy, later Cary’s Academy, was a London art school that provided training for pupils wishing to enter the Royal Continue
New Picture of London (1830) Sass’s Academy, later Cary’s Academy, was a London art school that provided training for pupils wishing to enter the Royal Continue
Edward Orme was a Regency era engraver, publisher and real estate developer, who made the genre of transparent prints popular through the above advertised title (https://www.princeton.edu/~graphicarts/2009/09/edward_ormes_transparent_print.html). Author Continue
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit. These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue
Perhaps demonstrating the timeless maxim that no woman is ever good enough for a mother’s son, this heartfelt letter appeared in the December 1803 issue Continue