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
Kitten in a parachute, 259-260.
_Ladies’ Pocket Book_, 79.
Langham Hotel, 49.
“Last Supper,” Benjamin West’s, 91.
Leverian Museum, 191.
Leyton, Rockhoult House at, 52.
“Little Sea,” the, 32.
London, its rural openness in 1777, 75.
Londoners’ superstitions, 37, 38.
Long’s Bowling Green, 51.
Lottery to dispose of Leverian Museum, 191.
Marionettes, 68.
Marylebone, Academy at, 41-46.
Marylebone Basin, Quaker youth drowned in, 50.
Marylebone Gardens, 51-68.
Marylebone Park, 41.
Marylebone, Old, 39-50.
Masks over doors, 28.
May Day, customs on, 19.
Mayors of Garrat, 127.
Medals commemorating murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey, 299.
Middlesex Hospital, 32.
Millbank, old, 258-259.
“Milkmaid, A Merry,” 21.
“Moses, The Finding of,” fashionable version, 85.
Mother Red-cap Tavern, 25, 26.
Nelson, his remains brought to Whitehall, 182.
Newgate, Smith’s visit to, 178-183.
---- auction at, 183-184.
Newman Street, view from, 46.
New Wells, the, 52.
Norris monument in Westminster Abbey, 274.
Norton Street, 75.
Nuremberg, Dürer festival at, 261-265.
Onions, peeled by Queen Charlotte, 236.
Otter’s Pool, 157.
Oxford Street, old tablet, 31.
Paddington, a villa at, 312-313.
Pain’s Hill at Cobham, 289.
“Papyrius Cursor,” 113.
Parachute descent, a famous, 259-260.
Pariton, a musical instrument, 53.
Parliament Stairs, 173.
Pax by Tomaso Finiguerra, 309-312.
Percy Chapel, Charlotte Street, 96.
Phlebotomist, a busy, 137.
Pickled Egg Walk, 70.
Pie Corner, 181.
Pimlico, formation of, 260.
Pipes, New River water, 36.
Poets’ Corner, 240-242.
Ponds in old Marylebone, 49.
Porridge Island, 322.
Portland Place, 48, 49.
Portland Vase, the, 130.
Portman Square, chairmen drowned at, 49.
Portraits, collected by Charles Mathews, 85.
Portraiture made easy, 119.
_Post Angel_, a curious journal, 314.
Printsellers, portrayed by Rowlandson, 122.
Prize fight, a famous, 33.
Puddings, worn by children, 11.
---- praised by Nollekens, 12.
Pump in Ironmonger Lane, 235.
Queen Anne Street, 48.
“Queen’s Head and Artichoke,” 22.
Rathbone Place, gatherings at, 96.
Rats’ Castle, 87.
Rattlesnakes at Islington, 52.
Regent’s Park, farms near, 24.
Rembrandt’s Three Trees “improved,” 115.
“Resurrection Gate,” 27.
Rockhoult House, 52.
Rose Tavern at Marylebone, 51, 58.
Royal Academy, 12, 13, 68.
---- two women admitted, 198.
Runnymede, 99, 101.
St. Bartholomew’s Fair, Belzoni at, 186-187.
St. Clare, Convent of, 162.
St. George’s Chapel, George III. in, 102.
St. George’s Fields, riot in, 13.
St. Giles in the Fields, 28, 29, 197.
St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, watermen’s burial ground at, 269.
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