[Johnson sleeping, Sir John Hawkins awaiting his arousal] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Johnson sleeping, Sir John Hawkins awaiting his arousal] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
Contributor: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, attributed name.
Collings, Samuel, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1786]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Samuel Johnson is shown full-length on the left, facing right and apparently asleep standing up; his knees are bent, his eyes are closed, and his head rests on his left hand. A second man stands on the right, hands in his coat pockets, looking over at Johnson; this figure may be Sir John Hawkins
Description: Title and date supplied by curator.
Alternative title from description of original drawing in: Riely, J. The age of Horace Walpole in caricature. New Haven : Yale University Library, 1973, no. 48.
After a drawing that is probably the work of Samuel Collings.
Printmaker attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '41' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Christie's, lot 285 of Derby sale; 20 October 1953.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.9 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 19.8 x 13.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.