This 19th Century British School portrait of "a lady seated with a dog on her lap" is being auctioned in Glasgow this weekend. I do believe it's Mrs Arbuthnot Abercrombie and Master Bartholomew! I wonder if there's a corresponding portrait of Lord H with Mr K on his lap? :P


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I don't think this is quite what Mr K had in mind when he asked Lord H to take Bartholomew for a walk! There'll be trouble when he finds out the old bugger has been promenading with Miss Chloe....


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I started reading The Commodore on the way to work this morning and came across this shocking detail.

In his bedroom Hornblower took the red ribbon of the Bath and the Star from the drawer in his wardrobe, and Brown found for him the dogskin gloves which he tugged on as he walked down the stairs.Dogskin gloves??! Does Mr Kennedy know about Lord H ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, while looking for a reference to something completely unrelated, I came across this fabulous snippet in the 1809 Sporting Magazine.

A beautiful male tiger, a tigercat, several sheep from the Cape of Good Hope, a land and sea tortoise, together with many other oriental quadrupeds, brought home by Sir Edward Pellew, were landed ( Read more... )