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Regency Advertisements: Wigleworth’s Wine

By Anne | May 4, 2017 - 8:45 am |November 14, 2021 Regency Advertisements, Regency Dish, Regency Economy

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This ad appeared in the January 1818 La Belle Assemblee, proclaiming the availability of every hero’s favorite drink (he at least likes one of them, Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Superfluous Hairs Be Gone!

By Anne | March 10, 2017 - 7:26 am |June 17, 2020 Regency Advertisements

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Appeared in July 1819 La Belle Assemblee

Regency Advertisements: Studies in Landscape

By Anne | February 22, 2017 - 8:05 am |March 10, 2017 Regency Advertisements, Regency Culture and Society

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January 1818 Ackermann’s Repository This is actually pretty impressive, as John Laporte (1761-1839) was a talented and known landscape painter and etcher. From London, Laporte’s daughter Continue →

Regency Pastimes: Poonah Painting

By Anne | November 22, 2016 - 10:57 am |November 14, 2021 Regency Pastimes

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Poonah painting was a style popular in the 19th century in which “thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to Continue →