Chatting [graphic].

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Title: Chatting [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Jackson, Elizabeth, active 1785-1788, publisher.
Collings, Samuel, artist.
Published / Created: [30 May 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-bone Street, Golden Square
Abstract: "Boswell (left) and Johnson (right) talk across a small circular table on which is a candle. Boswell leans on the table, with raised fingers, talking vivaciously. Johnson leans back as if asleep, his stick between his outstretched legs. Through an open door (left) is seen the back of Mrs. Boswell hurrying from the room. A bracket-clock points to 1.55. A dog looks up at Boswell yawning. The floor is boarded."--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]
Four lines of verse below title: "We talked of murder -- and of the antient trial by duel -- We sat till near two in the morning having chatted a good while after my wife left us ..." Vide Journal p. 15.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Wall clock -- Dog.
In mss. in lower left corner: E-147.
Provenance: Daniell ; Oct. 1962 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.6 x 27.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789
Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subjects: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Caricatures and cartoons
Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789 > 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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