A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape. By Alexander
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
2. Streaky clouds at the top of the sky, 3. Streaky clouds at the bottom of the sky, and 4. Half cloud half plain, the clouds darker than the plain or blue part & darker at the top then the bottom
Subject (Name):
Drawing--Study and teaching and Drawing--Technique
Collection Created:
London : Printed for the author, by J. Dixwell, in St. Martin’s Lane: and sold by Mr. A. Cozens, no. 4, Leicester Street, Leicester Fields; and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, [1785]
A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape. By Alexander
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
6. Half cloud half plain, the clouds lighter than the plain part, & darker at the top than the bottom. The tint twice over in the plain part, & once in the clouds., 7. The same as the last, but darker at the bottom than the top., and 8. Half cloud half plain, the lights of the clouds lighter, and the shades darker than the plain part and darker at the top than the bottom. The tint once over in the plain part, and twice in the clouds
Subject (Topic):
Drawing --Study and teaching and Drawing --Technique
Collection Created:
London : Printed for the author, by J. Dixwell, in St. Martin’s Lane: and sold by Mr. A. Cozens, no. 4, Leicester Street, Leicester Fields; and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, [1785]
A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape. By Alexander
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
10. All cloudy, except one large opening, with others smaller, the clouds darker than the plain part ..., 11. The same as the last, but darker at the bottom then the top., and 12. All cloudy, except one large opening, with others smaller, the clouds larger than the plain part ...
Subject (Name):
Drawing--Study and teaching and Drawing--Technique
Collection Created:
London : Printed for the author, by J. Dixwell, in St. Martin’s Lane: and sold by Mr. A. Cozens, no. 4, Leicester Street, Leicester Fields; and J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, [1785]
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., and Original boards with new back but old hand-lettered label, uncut. With Horace Walpole's bookplate (BP2 later state) on half-title page. Large Strawberry Hill fleuron. Press-mark R.10, but apparently moved from the Round Tower to the Library in the Offices. Not in Walpole's Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of the Earl of Orford (1813-94), imitated from Horace Walpole's, and bookplate of John A. Spoor. Also with bookplate "AHA".
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Page v. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". Johnson says, "Come Bossy". Behind and below them a loch and mountain (right) are indicated. In the foreground (left) is a huge thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., A companion print to: A tour to the Hebrides., On paper with a watermark (trimmed)., and Tipped in at page v in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Mountains, Climbing, Staffs (Sticks), and Thistles