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
Opposite title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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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
Page 133. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
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1
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still image
Abstract:
"A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman are seated facing each other, a tea-table between them. She wears an enormous 'derrière' and a projecting bosom; a round hat with a huge brim surrounded by a curtain frill of lace, through which her eyes and much-curled hair are visible. He wears a tight-fitting coat with a high collar, large buttons, and projecting shirt-frill. His hair or wig is in a looped queue with large side-curls. He looks at himself in a pocket-mirror with a satisfied air. His cane and round hat are on a chair behind him. The 'antient' dresses are those of the three quarter length portraits on the wall: in the centre are a gentleman and lady standing together in early Georgian dress, each holds a crook, a bird sits on the lady's finger. This is flanked by a lady (left) in quasi-Elizabethan dress, wearing a conical hat, a ruff, and a hooped petticoat in the form of a cylinder; and a man (right) wearing a high hat, cloak, slashed doublet, and breeches, holding a hooded hawk."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dresses antient and modern
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume -- Men's costume -- Pocket mirror -- Pictures that amplify subject., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 23.7 x 28 cm., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 133 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. May 16, 1786, by G.T. Stubbs, Peters Court, St. Martins Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Mirrors, Tea services, and Chairs
"A young woman (negligent of her other duties) reading in an armchair, by a grand fireplace with a bas-relief decoration of a reclining nude; head in profile to right, wearing a mob cap and voluminous skirts; a poker is stuck in the grate of the blazing fire."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Négligée
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1877,0512.620., "Simplex Mundities"--Lower left corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., 1 print : etching ; sheet 35.1 x 24.3 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark; hand-colored., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides.
Publisher:
Published March 6th, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Print shows a large group of city officials gathered around a table in Guildhall, some are jumping up and down on the table and have lost their hats and wigs. Posted on the wall are two notices: (1) "Nov. 1st 1786. The Lord Mayor is requested to set aside Parade and Festivity the ensuing 9th Nov. on account of the [death] of the Princess Amelia" and (2) "Guildhall. This day Nov'r. the 9 will be presented, not acted since the death of the Duke of Cumberland, a serious Entertainment called The City Camelions." The behavior of the city officials suggests that they are not pleased that there will be "no dinner - no ball" on Nov. 9th
Alternative Title:
No dinner - no ball
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Attributed to William Dent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, for the proprietor, by E. Macklew, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786 and Guildhall (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Death & burial, Municipal officials, Distress, Tables, Signs (Notices), Wigs, and Hats
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven men follow closely behind Samuel Johnson, who has a human head but the body of a bear. Johnson wears a tricorne and a cape and holds a staff in his right hand/paw. The man directly behind Johnson squats down with his nose near the tail of Johnson's bear body; the three men at the back wear academic gowns and hats
Description:
Title etched beneath lower left corner of image., Possibly signed in lower right corner using monogrammatic initials., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., A reduced copy of a print entitled "Scotch worship of an English idol; his high priest attending", published by Thomas Cornell (active 1780-1792). Cf. The Morgan Library & Museum call number: Peel Vol. 05, no. 273., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Mounted to 38 x 27 cm., and Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '39' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 6979. A bust portrait of Queen Charlotte, directed to the left, taking a pinch of snuff. She wears a jewelled oriental turban; her hair is studded with jewels, and jewels cover her neck and ornament her dress. A large ear-ring is conspicuous. In the upper left corner of the print, under the words 'The Pun', is a large heart-shaped jewel surmounted with a crown; it stands, embedded in diamonds, in a box inscribed 'Bulse'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Companion print to: Cheyt Sing in his Eastern dress., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
A satire on 18th-century English hairdressing and women’s fashion: a view of a London shop, presumably "The Rose" (note the large rose above the doorway), a hairdressing and wig-making shop owned by William Vickery (active circa 1783-1832). The shop is shown with double bay windows on the ground floor in which are displayed enormous wigs decorated with feathers. Men and women lean out of the windows on the upper level to watch a pair of bears escaping from the front door. The bears -- one saying to the other "Run brother Run, if were caught were Kill’d as sure as a Gun" -- are pursued by the proprietor of the shop and another woman. The shopfront is covered with advertisements for the real services and products offered by Vickery including Bears Grease, Soft Pomatums, Sticking Plaister, Curling Irons as well as "La Tete Transparante" and "Figaro Braids". A woman fleeing from the bears has lost her elaborate wig and is shown bald
Alternative Title:
Frizzle in an uproar
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 7, 1786, by S. Hooper, No. 212 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vickery, William.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Storefronts, Bay windows, Hairdressing, Bears, and Wigs
A bust portrait of a man wearing a turban covered in jewels, carrying a bulse. On the wall behind is a plan of the Battle of Hastings. In 1786 Warren Hastings forwarded a giant diamond from the Nizam of the Deccan as gift for George III, which was reported as a bribe from Hastings by his enemies
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For possibly related prints, see no. 6966 and no. 6978 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Nizām ʻAlī Khān, Nizam of Hyderabad, 1734-1803. and Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818.
Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
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
Alternative Title:
Scene from Boswell's 'Tour'
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., and 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 and Hawkins, John, 1719-1789
