Browse Items (161 total)

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  The Serpentine, Hyde Park

  This painting depicts visitors walking and riding horses through the trails of Hyde Park.
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  The Royal Exchange and Cornhill in London

  This illustration portrays the bustling streets at the Royal Exchange in London, England.
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  The Praying Jew

  This oil painting shows a devout Jewish man in the process of praying.
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  The Pied Piper of Hamelin

  This illustration depicts the Pied Piper from Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Here, he plays his pipe while being followed by a mob of children.
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  The original Picture of London (1826)

  As could be deduced by other items in this archive, Lyon lived in London for several years to do business and spend quality time with the Harts family. His brother married into that family, and they partially financed the Lyons' business. This is an illustration from one of the years that Lyon lived in London, offering an idea of what Lyon might have seen on a typical day.
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  The New Swell's Night Guide

  The New Swell's Night Guide was a book listing houses, clubs, and streets in London where prostitutes were available to men.
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  The Mansion House in London

  An engraving of the Mansion House in London.
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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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  The law and practice of bankruptcy : as founded on the recent statute : with forms

  A digital rendering of the title page and advertisements of a print book on bankruptcy and financial practices of London from 1831. Includes the advertisement notes from the 3rd and 4th editions of the volume.
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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.
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  The History of England

  The title page for David Hume's six volume work, entitled The History of England.
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  The Great Synagogue

  A digital image of a wash drawing of the Great Synagogue in London. It was located in the White Chapel district of London, just a five or ten minute walk from where Lyon lived, and it was one of the synagogues he attended.
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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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  The Great Eastern Steam Ship

  This illustration depicts the exterior view of the Great Eastern Steam Ship, as well as a cross-section revealing its interior layout, drawn by I.K. Brunel Esqr. F.R.S.
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  The First Quadrille at Almack's

  This illustration depicts two couples dancing the quadrille at Almack's Assembly Rooms in London, England.
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  The Counting-House Assistant, or, A Brief Digest of American Mercantile Law

  A digital .pdf of The Counting-House Assistant, or, A Brief Digest of American Mercantile Law, published in Pittsburgh in 1818. It describes the rules of American mercantile law in the nineteenth century. A.S. Lyon would have worked in similar conditions and legal frameworks.
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  The Counting House

  The painting depicts a counting house in business, perhaps displaying the work that James and Abraham Lyon conducted in their own lives.
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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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  The Chess Game

  The photograph depicts three people playing chess between 1860-1865. Lyon mentions his interest in chess in several places throughout the Diaries.
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  The Careenage, Bridgetown, Barbados

  This image depicts a river town in Barbados close to the sea. Lyon lived in Barbados and sailed into its port many times.
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  The Bride or My Ewens Bride

  Cameron set up a private studio at her Isle of Wight home at the age of 48, after her daughter gave her a camera, and she became an expert at using the collodion wet-plate process. She employed friends, servants and neighbours as subjects, including scientists Charles Darwin and John Herschel, as well as poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. Much of her work reflects the Pre-Raphaelite painting style which was popular at the time.
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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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  The Blue Devils _!!

  This illustration depicts a man experiencing the "blue devils," a term commonly used to signify depression or melancholy. This man's blue devils are personified, tormenting him with imagery of death and suicide.
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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.

• The Betrothed

  On February 4, 1826 Lyon begins reading Sir Walter Scott’s _The Betrothed_ (published in 1825), a novel set during Henry II reign over England. The publishers were not enthusiastic about the novel and insisted on major revisions to the text. Ballantyne apparently found the novel “tiresome” which led Scott to continue revising with hopes of a more successful end result (Walter Scott Digital Archive, Edinburgh University Library). Ballantyne and Constable finally suggested that the novel should be published with Scott's next and, in their opinion, superior novel, _The Talisman_ (Walter Scott Digital Archive, Edinburgh University Library). Both novels were published together under the title, _Tales of the Crusaders_, in 1825. ( http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/betrothed.html) As Lyon’s diary attests, _The Betrothed_ was a success. On several occasions Lyon remains up late at night reading this novel. While he neglects to comment on its content, continues to give it his close attention. Once rescued from a Welsh siege, the sixteen-year-old Eveline is rescued by Damian Lacy nephew of her betrothed. The novel’s action is focused around a love plot, kidnappings, romance, and chivalry and energizes the culture’s fascination with Crusade narratives which Scott helped to popularize in several of his novels. One wonders if Lyon would have read Scott's wildly successful _Ivanhoe_ (1820), another Crusade romance featuring a love triangle between two Anglo-Saxons and a Jewess. These types of medieval romances continued to be popular by writers like Benjamin Disraeli and Charlotte Tonna.