1 Harriette Wilson
2 The May fair, 1716
3 Piccadilly from Coventry Street
4 Amy Dubouchet
5 Sophia Dubouchet
6 Julia Johnstone
7 Ashdown House, engraved by Kip from a drawing by Knyff, c.1716
8 ‘Brighton, Amy & Bouldry – “Get up,” said she, rudely pushing her enamorato of the sofa.’
9 Characters on the Steyne, Brighton, by Robert Cruikshank, 1826
10 ‘Harriette’s Apartment, Frederick Lambe rather too loving.’
11 The Marquis of Lorne, from a drawing by Henry Edridge, 1801
12 Harriette Wilson, 1825
13 ‘Patience! The Duke of Argyle, whistling & sitting on a gate’
14 Amy Dubouchet, date and artist unknown
15 Covent Garden Theatre, by Thomas Rowlandson, from The Tour of Dr Syntax, 1812
16 ‘A Masquerade at the King’s Theatre Opera House’, by Robert Cruikshank, from Don Juan, 1822
17 The Duke of Wellington by Juan Bauzit, 1812
18 ‘Venus and Mars! He look’d very much like a Rat-catcher’
19 ‘Disopintment! The Duke of Wxxxlxxxtxn, Alais, the Rat catcher refused admittance to H. Wilson.’
20 ‘Harriette Wilson and Byron at Wattier’s Masquerade’
21 Mrs Mary Anne Clarke, c.1809
22 ‘Harriette Wilson with Lord Ponsonby’s farewell letter’
23 ‘Lord Ponsonby’s house: Disappointment – despair – madness’
24 ‘Employment! the Marquis of W——r laceing H. Wilson’s Stays, & makeing toast for breakfast’
25 ‘The Sugar Baker’s decent, from the Duchess to the Demirep’
26 List of names on the back of the first instalment of the Memoirs (Stockdale, 1825)
27 Henry Brougham, by Lonsdale
28 ‘La, Coterie, Debouché, – Intended as a Frontisepiece to Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs’
29 Harriette Wilson, frontispiece to Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs
30 ‘Scarlet Fever versus Yellow Jaundice, or the Libel Publisher Cut Up, July 1, 1825’
31 ‘The Cyprian’s Ball at the Argyle Rooms’, Robert Cruikshank, 1826, Harriette shown dancing with Stockdale below the harpist.
32 The Fleet Prison
33 King George IV, by Lawrence
34 Elizabeth, Lady Conyngham, by J. Singry
35 Edward Bulwer Lytton
36 Brougham arranges Harriette’s funeral: ‘My dear Duke
Our old acquaintance Mme de Bochet (Harriet Wilson) died last the week before last and left a note says she hoped two or three of her former acquaintance would give the few pounds (fifteen) required to bury her – she having had an estimate price in with all the particulars …’
37 The Pavilion, Hans Place, Chelsea. From an engraving published in 1810