A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833Smith, John Thomas
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A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833
Smith, John Thomas
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Aeronaut, an early English, 129.
Amphitheatre, Broughton’s, 33.
Anodyne necklaces, 8.
Auctioneers, famous London, 108-110.
Balloon ascent from Vauxhall, 260.
Baltimore House, 75.
Bankside, a house on, 78.
Banqueting House, restoration of Rubens’s ceiling, 319-320.
Barber-Surgeons’ Hall, 301.
Battersea market gardeners, 293.
Beaufort Buildings, festive nights in, 120.
Bedroom, Dr. John Gardner’s last best, 89.
Beech-tree at Windsor demolished, 131.
Beech-tree, drawn by J. T. Smith, 129.
Beefsteaks, Sublime Society of, 213-214.
Beggars, famous London, 87, 88, 89, 223.
Belgrave House, 259.
Bells, Thames-side church, 298-299.
Bermondsey Spa, 150-152.
Bird-fanciers, their London quarters, 69.
Bistre from a burnt tree, 131.
Black Boy Alley, 180.
Bloomsbury Square, Lady Ellenborough in, 100.
Blotting, the art of, 132.
Blue Boy, Gainsborough’s, 317.
Bolsover Street, painters in, 75.
Bookseller, a Strand, 109.
Bow, cane-heads made at, 134.
Brentford, election at, 15.
Bridewell, picture by Holbein in, 302.
Brown tree, Sir George Beaumont’s craze for a, 131.
Buckingham Street, Etty’s rooms in, 305.
---- Stanfield, R.A., in, 306.
“Budget,” John Bannister’s, 206-207.
Bun House at Chelsea, 147.
Busby wig, 251.
Cake, the Baddeley, 64.
Capper’s Farm, Great Russell Street, 30.
Caterpillars, plague of, 272.
Centenarians, 25.
“Chapeau de Paille” of Rubens, 243-245.
Chapter Coffee House, 184.
Charles II. eats a pickled egg, 70.
Cheesecakes, etc., at Marylebone Gardens, 57.
Chelsea Hospital, 295.
Chelsea porcelain, 284.
Cherokee Kings at Marylebone, 57.
“Chloe,” Prior’s, 60.
Chunee, the elephant, 107.
Circus, Astley’s, 270-271.
“Cit’s Country Box,” 17.
City of London _v._ Copper Holmes, 269.
Clapham, old, 275.
Coals, price of, 300.
“Cocker, according to,” 113.
Cock-fighting yesterday and to-day, 70.
Cockney Ladle, 48, 49.
Cockpits in London, 69-70.
Coffee used to stain prints, 256.
Collectors described, 110-122.
Colvill Court, 32.
Combing of wigs, 255.
Conjurer, Breslaw the, 68.
Connoisseurs at the “Feathers,” etc., 104-106.
Cooper’s Hill, 99.
Covent Garden, its hackney chairs, 3.
---- artists residing there, 5.
---- painting of, by Inigo Jones, 209.
Crab-tree Fields, 33.
Cradles, 9.
Cricket in White Conduit Fields, 192-193.
Cross Readings, Caleb Whitefoord’s, 113.
“Cumberland Cock” hat, 236.
Cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry, 250.
Cuyp, adventure of a, 114.
Dards’ Exhibition, 232.
Denmark Street, St. Giles’s, 27.
Devonshire Mews, 43.
Dew, Londoners bathing their faces in, 38.
Dickens anticipated, 84.
Dog, Alcibiades’, 233.
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