Walking up the High StreetRowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[15 May 1786]eng"Johnson and Boswell walk diagonally from the right towards the spectator. Boswell (right) walks jauntily, holding out a three-cornered hat and looking up at Johnson. Johnson holds his oak stick, and looks down at Boswell, putting his finger to his nose. Behind them a row of six-storied houses recedes in perspective."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue v. 6, page 345.Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]Three lines of verse below title: "Mr. Johnson and I walked arm in arm up the High Street to my house in James Court; it was a dusky night ..." Vide Journal p. 13.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.In mss. in lower right corner: E-145.