Browse Items (161 total)

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  Lottery Drawing, Cooper's Hall

  This print depicts a lottery drawing by the English State Lottery at Cooper's Hall in 1809 London. The English State Lottery, established in 1694, was eventually shut down by Parliament in 1826.
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  The Synagogue

  This illustrated engraving depicts worship by a Jewish congregation at the Great Synagogue in London.
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  Pantheon Masquerade

  This illustration portrays men and women dancing during a masquerade ball at The Pantheon in London, England.
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  The Great Hall of the Bank of England

  This illustration depicts transactions taking place within the Great Hall of the Bank of England in London.
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  Men Dancing in a Coffee House, an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

  This illustration depicts men dancing, laughing, and generally taking pleasure in their visit to a coffee house.
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  Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

  This 1828 drawing portrays a crowd of people as they enter the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in London.
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  The chess players

  This item is a digital reproduction of a nineteenth-century painting by Thomas Eakins. A. S. Lyon describes mentions his interest in chess on several occasions when he either plays or teaches others how to play chess.
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  A collection of playbills from Drury Lane Theatre, 1820-1821

  A digital rendering of an original playbill depicting the order of acts of entertainment from a performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Featuring the title of a song, "Glorious Apollo" discussed by Lyon on page 33 of his diary.
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  A collection of playbills from Drury Lane Theatre, 1826-1828

  This item is a digital reproduction of an image taken of a playbill from Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for Tuesday, November 13, 1827. Of particular interest is the mention of Mr. Macready (playing Virginius) and Miss Foote (playing Virginia) in the play “Virginius.” A. S. Lyon mentioned seeing them on April 26, 1826.
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  Obituary Notice

  A digital image of an obituary notice posted in the January 1846 edition of The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal announcing the passing of Dr. James Johnson, who treated A.S. Lyon.
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  The "Arcades." Horticurtural Gardens South Kensington

  This is a photograph of The "Arcades" in the Horticulture Gardens of South Kensington from the 19th Century.
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  The blue devils. A poor depressed man.

  The blue devils was a term given to melancholy and sadness. It refers to "intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal," and as time went on, it came to mean a state of agitation or depression.
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  Victoria Station London - Clock

  Photograph of the clock at Victoria Railway Station in London, England.
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  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott provides a first-person account of Scott's daily life from 1825 to his death in 1832. It was primarily written at his Scottish estate, Abbostford. The first complete edition of his journals were published by David Douglas in 1890.

• Bay of Biscay

  This is a sheet map of the Bay of Biscay and it shows the area where Lyon might have sailed.
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  John Bull

  This item is a digital reproduction of a (potential) lithograph included at the beginning of John Bull: The Englishman’s Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts, published in 1807 by George Colman, the Younger.
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  The London Tavern at Bishopsgate

  A digital image of an engraved illustration of The City of London Tavern from 1809. The illustration provides context on the places Lyon visited in London.
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  Diary of Sarah Lindo Lyon

  Manuscript Diary
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  Maria Foote, Afterwards Countess of Harrington, as Maria Darlington in the Farce of "A Rowland for an Oliver" (1824)

  Black and white digital image of a book plate featuring Maria Foote, British stage actress renowned for her beauty and musical talents. She later became the Countess of Harrington and left the stage. This illustration was done in 1824, two years before A.S. Lyon would've seen her perform as Virginia in the play Virginius at Drury Lane Theatre.
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  The Blue Devils

  This illustration depicts a man consulting his doctor on his ailment, caused by the "blue devils," a term commonly used during the nineteenth century to describe feelings of depression.
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  Covent Garden Theatre

  Illustration depicting a performance onstage at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
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  Drury Lane Theatre

  Illustration from Microcosm of London depicting a Roman play performed in the early nineteenth-century at the Drury Lane Theatre in London.
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  _The Soho Bazaar, Soho Square_

  Photo illustration of the Soho Bazaar in Soho Square, a covered marketplace or street where goods and services are sold. Taken from _The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics_ by Rudolph Ackermann, accessed by Wikipedia Commons. In his diary A.S. Lyon mentions that he shopped at the London Bazaar.
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  Interior of late 19th century terraced house - National History Museum of Wales, St Fagans

  This photo shows the interior view of a late nineteenth-century worker's home in St. Fagans, Wales, rebuilt for display at The National Maritime Museum.
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  Panoramic View of Paris from the Pont Neuf

  In his many travels, Lyon often visited Paris, where he would conduct a large portion of his business buying merchandise and negotiating prices. He sometimes complained about going to Paris, as the journey could easily be strained by bad weather ravaging his open carriage. Lyon also failed to fully grasp Parisian culture and the French language. This image of Paris reflects the state of the city as Lyon would have seen it.