Monthly Archives: November 2011

Douce’s ‘Portraits of English literati’

Posted on November 25, 2011 by mercedes-c

Douce’s collection also includes a large number of portraits, most of which seem to have been either given to him by friends and acquaintances, or cut from newspapers and magazines. As Douce knew many of the sitters personally, sometimes he … Continue reading →

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Modern life is rubbish

Posted on November 14, 2011 by mercedes-c

The quadrille-craze mentioned in my previous post on William Hawkes Smith’s music-sheet was also one of the subjects depicted by George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank in their illustrations to Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821). In Egan’s social comedy, the … Continue reading →

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Douce trivia

Posted on November 7, 2011 by mercedes-c

In 1818, Francis Douce’s sister-in-law, Maria, widow of Charles Luther Watson, married Christopher Salter, from West End House in Buckinghamshire. The Salter family had owned West End House in Stoke Poges since the early eighteenth-century, when it was let to … Continue reading →

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