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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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A peek inside the lovely interior of the Townley Gallery at the old 1827 - which held an unrivalled collection of over 300 Greco-Roman statues. This gallery was demolished in 1845 when the Museum was rebuilt on its grander (modern) scale. (Scharf)

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2/5 This second image features a trio of women in rustic dress, one playing a hurdygurdy and another a tambourine whilst the third holds up a collection cup Scharf c.1838

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A view of the staircase of the old at Montagu House, (Scharf, 1845)
Apart from its lovely ceiling, we learn that paying to exhibit anything in this area was clearly going to be two deer

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Scharf appreciated the utility of placards on the streets of for disseminating news, commerce, or (as depicted) cultural pastimes.
Todays offers include an Exhibition of British Artists in Suffolk Street or a model of Palestine at the Adephi in the Strand (1825)

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Who needs Darwin, when Scharf's study of street placards and their holders in from 1825 to 1833 gives us evolution in motion

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A remarkable view of the Eleanor Cross at Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire by Scharf (1822) - with the modern-day High Street stretching off into the distant countryside

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1/2 Scharf's day trip to rural Hackney
A view of the gardens and grounds of Mr Graven's house at Stamford Hill, with a man climbing a ladder a large hayrick and a dovecote in the background, August 1825

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Scharf's portrait of a black African Londoner, wearing a white dress with a black lace shawl and standing upon a patterned carpet, (1844)

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Scharf's simply beautiful study of three milk-carriers at work in (1818), with a draftsman helping himself to a jug of milk as two of the maids chatter, whilst a flower seller stands nearby ready for the day's business

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Black and mixed ethnic people were not unusual sights for Londoners during the Regency period because by that time London was already a diverse and cosmopolitan city.
Scharf's study features two men walking in Leadenhall Street (1825)

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