Bigger Peaches
Rosemary Hill: Haydon, 22 February 2001
The Immortal Dinner: A Famous Evening of Genius and Laughter in Literary London, 1817
by Penelope Hughes-Hallett.
Viking, 336 pp., £15.99, September 2000,0 670 87999 1 Show More
by Penelope Hughes-Hallett.
Viking, 336 pp., £15.99, September 2000,
“... the young Welby Pugin and old Colonel Phillips, who had been round the world with Captain Cook, were welcome to keep Smith company while he dried out mouldy Rembrandts in front of the fire. Bores, among whom he numbered Haydon, were told there was no room. In the galleries of the museum where Napoleon’s Egyptian antiquities, captured by the ... ”