A Sample of General Amusements &c.
The Lady’s Correct List of the Amusements, Exhibitions, Lectures &c. In the Metropolis for January 1815, with the Times and Terms of Admission
New British Lady’s Magazine Vol. 1 Issue I (1815) at 71-72
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Literary and Philosophical.
ROYAL INSTITUTION, Albemarle-street--W. T. Brande, esq. F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, will deliver his first Lectures on the Rise and Progress of Chemical Philosophy, and its application to Agriculture and the Arts; with experimental Illustrations, on Saturday, the 28th, at 2 o’clock.--Ladies’ admission to the Series of Lectures annually, 2l. 2s.
RUSSELL INSTITUTION, Great Coram-street. Mr. Singer’s First Three Lectures of a Course of Ten, on Electricity and Electro-Chemistry, on the 16th, 23d, and 30th, at 8 in the evening. --Ladies’ admission to the Course, 1l. 4s.--Gentlemen’s 1l. 11s. 6d.
SURRY INSTITUTION, Black-friar’s road.--Mr. Jame Love Wheeler’s Last Five Lectures on Chemistry, on the 3d, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st, at 7 in the evening.--Mr. John Mason Good’s Lectures on the Passions and Affections of the Human Mind, each Friday in the month.--Admission by subscription 2l. 2s, to the whole cCourse of Lectures at the Surry Institution.
LONDON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Scots’ Hall, Crane-court, Fleet-street.--Mr. W. Henley’s Lecture on Electro-Chemical Science, on the 26th, at 8 in the evening.--Admission by tickets from members; See T. Pettigrew, esq. F.L.S. Bolt-court, Fleet-street.
CITY PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, Dorset-street, Salisbury-square.--Philosophical Lectured, 4th and 18th, at 8 in the evening.--Admission by tickets from members; Secretary, Mr. Shepherd, Fleet-street.
MR. TATUM’s Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, with Experiments; 2d, 9th, 15th, 23d, and 30th, on Chemistry; 53 Dorset-street, Fleet-street.--1l. 1s., the Courses. Single Lectures, 1s.
Paintings.
EUROPEAN MUSEUM of near 800 Pictures by various Masters, King-street, St. James’s-square.--12 to 4, 1s.
MR. WEST’S Picture of Christ Rejected, and the original Design of the Crucifixion for the Windsor of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor; Pall Mall.--10 till dusk, 1s.
MAGNIFICENT PICTURES, by Annibal and Ludovico Caracci &c.--10 till 6. 1s.
BRITISH GALLERY of Drawings and Specimens of Engravings from Pictures by Great Masters, 54, New Bond-street, --9 till dusk, 1s.
LONDON GALLERY, 22, Piccadilly.--The Marriage Banquet of Napoleon an Maria Louisa; a fine picture by Casanova, with other Paintings, Tapestry, &c.--1s.
PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, at Adam-street, Adelphi, painted at the request of the Empress for her own private apartment.--10 till dusk, 1s.
GRAND PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON in his Imperial Robes on the Throne of the Tuileries, with Regalia, &c., from the Council Chamber of Liege.--10 till 6, 1s.
Panoramas.
BARKER’s, Leicester-square.--Battle of Vittoria, and Grand Harbour of Malta.--10 till dusk, 1s. Each painting.
BARKER’s opposite the New Church in the Strand.--Paris and Battle of Corunna.--10 till dusk, 1s, each.
Natural History &c.
BULLOCK’s LONDON MUSEUM of 25,000 Specimens of Natural History, Antiquities, and Curiosities of Nature and Art, near St. James’s-street, Piccadilly.--The Museum of Birds and Curiosites 1s; Pantherion, or Quadrupeds, 1s.--10 till dusk.
POLITO”s ROYAL MENAGERIE. Exeter Change, Strand.--Three apartments, 1s. Each, or 2s. 6d., the three, opened at 10, shuts at 9.
SERPENT ALIVE.--The Boa Constrictor, sixteen feet long; 349, Strand.--10 till dusk, 1s.
Phaenomena.
JOHN HAUPTMAN, 32 years old, 37 inches high, and LITTLE NANETTE, 33 years old, 33 inches high, 33 pounds weight; 23, New Bond-street.--11 till 3, and 6 till 9, first places 2s; second places, 1s.
MASTER VINE, an interesting infant, 5 years old, with arms 4 inches long very clever at Drawing, Copying &c., at the Lyceum, Strand, 10 till dusk, 2s.; children 1s.
DU BOURG’s LARGE CORK MODELS of Ancient Temples, Ampitheatred, Mausoleums &c., 68 Lower Grosvenor-street, 2s; Children 1s.
THE TABLEAUX ANIMATED or EIDOPHUSICON, 182 Fleet-street. --Open, with One View in Motion, from 11 till 7, 1s; with the Six Tableaux, at 8 in the evening, Pit, 2s; Gallery, 1s.
WEEK’s MUSEUM OF CURIOUS AND SURPRISING MECHANISM, Tichbourne-street, Piccadilly, 9 till 9, 2s 6d.
MRS. SALMON’s ROYAL HISTORICAL WAX WORK, 67 Fleet-street, 10 till 10, 1s.
MR. WIGLEY’s PROMENADE ROOMS, Spring Gardens.--Open daily for the inspection of Toys and Trinkets on Sale; Admission gratis.
THE BRITISH FORUM, a Debating Society, at No. 22, New Bond-street.--Every Thursday evening at 7, 1s.
National Edifices, containing Objects of General Interest.
BRITISH MUSEUM, Great Russell-street.--Open on Monday, Wednesday; and Friday, in each week, except the Christmas week.--Admission, gratis, from 10 till 2.
TOWER OF LONDON.--Lions and other Beasts, Armoury, Regalia, &c.--Charges according to the various parts seen.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.--The charge 1s. 2d. Exclusive of subsequent demands.
ST. PAUL’s CATHEDRAL.--Admission to the top, 4d. Various small charges for the different parts shewn.
THE MONUMENT, Fish-street-hill.--9 till 3; admission to the top, 6d.
The THEATRES open during the mont are:--The OPERA, the season commences on Tuesday, the 20th; DRURY-LANE Theatre; COVENT-GARDEN Theatre; SURRY Theatre at the Obelisk, St. George’s-fields; the SANS-PAREIL Theatre, opposite the Adelphi, Strand; ASTLEY’s OLYMPIC PAVILION, Newcastle-street, Strand; the REGENCY Theatre, Tottenham-street, Tottenham-court-road.