. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. ere Gillray has given, as a contrast, Lord Valletort the neatest of little beaux, and the smallest man in theClub, and Lord Cholmondeley, who was very tall and Buckinghamshire, whose embonpoint Gillray neverspared, plays the piano, and Lady Salisbury, who from herlove of hunting, was frequently satirized under the name ofDiana, performs on a hunting horn. The fashionablepapers of the day were, during the season, seldom withouta paragraph of this society, but it did not last long, and itsdeath is recorded in th
. The dawn of the XIXth century in England, a social sketch of the times. ere Gillray has given, as a contrast, Lord Valletort the neatest of little beaux, and the smallest man in theClub, and Lord Cholmondeley, who was very tall and Buckinghamshire, whose embonpoint Gillray neverspared, plays the piano, and Lady Salisbury, who from herlove of hunting, was frequently satirized under the name ofDiana, performs on a hunting horn. The fashionablepapers of the day were, during the season, seldom withouta paragraph of this society, but it did not last long, and itsdeath is recorded in the Times, February 28, 1803 : ThePic-nic Society is at an end. Many of its members, at alate meeting, wished to continue the Theatrical amuse-ments, but no person would undertake the management ofthem. In 1801, there were to be seen in Spring Gardens,Maillardets Automata, where a wooden lady performed on This marks, as much as anything, the manners of the times. Fancy theupper ten, now-a-days, ordering their supper from a tavern !* The famous ballet-dancer of that time,. ALMACKS. 357 the piano ; also Miss Linwoods Exhibition of Needlework,first at the Hanover Square Rooms, and afterwards atSaville House, Leicester Square, where were exhibitedmarvels of crewel work. There are one or two of herpictures in the South Kensington Museum; but her Salvator Mundi, after Carlo Dolci, for which she refused3,ooq guineas, she bequeathed to the Queen. She had arival, whose name, however, has not been so well per-petuated—vide the Morning Post, June 4, 1800: Thewool pictures, so much talked of among the connoisseurs,are certainly executed with very great taste. Miss Thomp-son has brought her art to very great perfection, & were shown in Old Bond Street. Then, for the extremely select, during the season, wasAlmacks ^ which, then, was not quite so exclusive as after-wards. Morning Herald, April 27,1802 : Almacks, KingStreet, St. James Square. James and William Willis mostrespectfully in
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