Friday 22nd October 1819
Oct 22nd Remained in doors all the day.
OBSERVATIONS & COMMENTS:
See 11 July blog where we looked at how people passed the time in doors. Common activities were reading, drawing, painting, playing music, cards, board games, conversation. We know from 11 July that Lucy went outside and sketched whilst she and her mother stayed at the Inn. It is possible she used the time to catch up on her diary.
Playing music
A young girl plays the piano as a young woman accompanies her on the violin. Chromolithograph. CC BY Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gvwxdqdr
Sketching, drawing or painting
Emma Smith sketching. Mezzotint by A. Probyn, 1801, after J.R Smith. (CC BY) Credit: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/f4xtxxze
Gentlemen conversing, playing board games, reading and drinking
Men are sitting at tables in a club room in which the tables are lit by candles: some of the men are playing board games, others are drinking and reading. (CC BY) Etching. Credit: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/pspdkrqr
Playing Cards
While Lady Buckingham is gambling with her cronies, her husband enters to report the theft of the bank. Etching by James Gillray, 1797. (CC BY) Credit: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/n9xsyxma
Family reading
A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?). (CC BY) Credit: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/snxu6h5m
Can you help us?
Old Regency Prints, Pictures an Coaching maps: Do you have access to any prints or pictures showing what town and country would have looked like when Lucy travelled through? Any illustrations of what she would have seen in 1819 will enliven our research.
New Pictures: Do you have any modern pictures of the streets, buildings, gardens and views that would enable us to see the changes that two centuries have wrought?