"Portrait, head and shoulders, seated on a chair in profile to right, wearing a wig with curls and queue, coat over waistcoat with high collar, neckerchief and frill; after Dance; state published by Daniell. 1802, this state1808."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Willm. Daniell, No. 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London
Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, printmaker
Published / Created:
[17 January 1786]
Call Number:
Portraits B747 no. 4+
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of James Boswell after Reynolds (Mannings 214); half-length, turned to left, eyes to front; wearing plain, unbuttoned coat and waistcoat; curtain and landscape behind; lettered state before title erased."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Unframed in February 2023. Printed label of the Rowley Gallery in Kensington, London, and a second label with a 20th century ink inscription, affixed to backing of former frame., and Watermark: Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs Janry. 17, 1786, by I. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street, Mary-le-bone
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right., Plate from: The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... , v. 38 (1769), p. 455., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: Corsican chief.
"The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, part the second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-161.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square