A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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Title: A collection of prints and a drawing collected by Horace Walpole to illustrate his copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector
Contributor: Collings, Samuel, artist.
Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre, 1720-1791, artist.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Barlow, Inigo, printmaker.
Roberts, James, 1725-1799, printmaker.
Sewell, John, 1733 or 1734-1802, publisher.
Wright, Thomas, -1797, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1787?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his bookplate on half-title page of volume. Strawberry Hill Sale, v.186 (with Clark, Johnson, Moir, Piozzi, and Wallace), to Strong, £1.14.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 12029, for £1.11.6; Thorpe, 1842, to George Daniel, £1.11.6 (Daniel's note on fly-leaf); Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (Daniel Sale), lot 202, to Molini, £6.12.6; Sotheby's, 11 June 1895 (Orford Sale), lot 331, to Quaritch, £41; offered in Quaritch's Catalogues in 1895 and 1899; Sotheby's, 19 December 1900 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 597, to Cole, £31; Parke-Bernet, 5 May 1939 (Spoor Sale), lot 1109, to Edgar Wells for Arthur Houghton, $550. Gift of Arthur Houghton; November 1951.
Extent: 7 prints : sheets 23 x 13 cm or smaller
1 drawing : sheet 14 x 12 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English