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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… especially for marquetry furniture, Hester Thrale (Mrs Piozzi) describing, in 1775, the inlaid floors at Sceaux for …
Old and New London
… it did, we could not pay it." "Dr. Johnson," writes Mrs. Piozzi, "made four lines on the death of poor Hogarth, which …
The Environs of London
… written upon Hogarth by Dr. Johnson, is printed in Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes. "The hand of him here torpid lies, "That …
Survey of London
… Lynch Salusbury (later Mrs. Thrale, subsequently Mrs. Piozzi), 24 c. 17623; Francis Hayman, painter, 176576; John … 1936, pp. 478, 52; James L. Clifford, Hester Lynch Piozzi ( Mrs. Thrale), 1952, pp. 19, 46. Diary and Letters of …
Old and New London
… of the honest country parson. "One day," says Mrs. Piozzi, "Johnson was called abruptly from our house at … as a last resource; and it is possible, as Mrs. Piozzi intimates, that it was still regarded as unfinished. …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… The Streatham Park furniture which Gillows supplied to Mrs Piozzi was the cause of a major dispute due to the firm's …
The Environs of London
… 189. Picture gallery, at Dulwich College, account of, 108. Piozzi , Grabriel, Esq. seat of, at Streatham, 482. Plague , …
Old and New London
… of the public as to who the author could be. Mrs. Piozzi stood almost single-handed in maintaining that they …
Survey of London
… the husband of Hester Lynch Salusbury (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi) and friend of Dr. Johnson, was the lessee, but not …
Survey of London
… Hind Alley) 57, 67 n. Pillory, St. Margaret's Hill 9, 11 Piozzi, Mrs. (Mrs. Thrale) 78 n. Phillips, Augustine,74, 76 …