The vision

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Title: The vision
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: "Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--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]
Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark
Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
Provenance: Daniell ; 1 Oct. 1962 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 cm x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Watermarks (Paper) G R.
Material: etching with stipple in sepia ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subjects: Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Illustrations
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
G R.
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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