Regency Hot Spots: Mr. Sass’s Academy

Portrait of Henry Sass

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

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

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