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Historian of celebrity during the Regency era, Wanstead House & the scandalous life of William Long-Wellesley. Roofer, Father, Londonist & Eejit #uniwestminster
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The Provost's House and Trinity College, by Thomas Malton c.1790

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Shades of Canaletto here with this Venetian-style portrait of the River Thames, with Somerset House to the left and St Paul's Cathedral dominating the background skyline, by Thomas Malton, (1796)

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A breathtaking view of St Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Hil as it was back in in August 1797, by Thomas Malton - Loving the fact that this is pretty much how it still looks today

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And lastly, - The emotion of anger' seemingly attributed exclusively to women -
"This unruly Passion shows itself in a forcible degree in a termagant Mistress, scolding her Maid servant." - Rowlandson, (January 1800)

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"As Laughter is often excited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping, in this instance the hard & obdurate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad. " - another study of the emotions by Rowlandson (1800)

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"Laughter is one of the most pleasing of the Passions & is with difficulty accounted for, as risibility is frequently exited from the most simple causes. - As is the case with the Countryman & his Cat."
Some history of emotions here by Rowlandson, Jan 21st 1800

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A view of HMS Discovery once a support vessel for Captain Cook's third voyage but now a rat-infested convict ship moored alongside the Thames at downriver from (1828) - she was finally broken up in 1834

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Sir John Lade, one of my favourite Regency period gadabouts - is in the process of doing a wheel spin around Tattersall's at Hyde Park, in the summer of 1796

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A view of the entrance to Carlton House from St James' Park c.1750 - you need to get past those two bouncers if you want to get in

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Antiguan-born Robert 'Romeo' Coates, was a massively popular eccentric actor famed for his ability to invent dialogue and scenes mid-show, seen here in the role of Lothario in Nicholas Rowe's 'The Fair Penitant' at the Haymarket Theatre 9th December 1811

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