Walking up the High Street

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Title: Walking up the High Street
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Jackson, Elizabeth, active 1785-1788, publisher.
Collings, Samuel, artist.
Published / Created: [15 May 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 15th 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Abstract: "Johnson and Boswell walk diagonally from the right towards the spectator. Boswell (right) walks jauntily, holding out a three-cornered hat and looking up at Johnson. Johnson holds his oak stick, and looks down at Boswell, putting his finger to his nose. Behind them a row of six-storied houses recedes in perspective."--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 First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]
Three lines of verse below title: "Mr. Johnson and I walked arm in arm up the High Street to my house in James Court; it was a dusky night ..." Vide Journal p. 13.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
In mss. in lower right corner: E-145.
Provenance: Daniell ; 1 Oct. 1962 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.9 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Illustrations
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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