The vision [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[15 May 1786]eng"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345.Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]Sheet trimmed within plate markThree lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110.Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 25 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 29.9 cm.Mounted on leaf 63 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.