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1. A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side [graphic]
2. A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1786]
- Call Number:
- 49 3069
- Collection Title:
- Opposite title page. 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. 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., A companion print to: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side., On paper watermarked "W.J.", and Tipped in opposite title page 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 (Geographic):
- Scotland.
- Subject (Name):
- Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
- Subject (Topic):
- Ethnic stereotypes, Clothing & dress, Bears, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to the Hebrides Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch professors to kiss / [graphic]