The contest at Auckinleck

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Description

Title
The contest at Auckinleck
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Jackson, Elizabeth, active 1785-1788, publisher.
Collings, Samuel, artist.
Published / Created
[10 June 1786]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. June 10th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No.14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Abstract

"The interior of a library, the walls lined with heavy folio volumes. Johnson attacks Lord Auchinleck (left) with three books inscribed 'Liturgy', held between his upraised hands which conceal his face. Auchinleck shrinks back in alarm; he has dropped two volumes, 'Calvin' and 'Whiggism', to the floor. Medals lie on the ground. Boswell (right) stands in the doorway behind Johnson, biting his thumbs and gazing upwards in consternation; his 'Journal' falls to the ground. He wears his Scots cap, and his ink-pot dangles from his buttonhole. Auchinleck is an elderly man wearing a judge's wig and bands."--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: "The context began whilst my father was shewing hima his collection of medals ..." Vide Journal p. 482.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Library -- Folio volumes -- Scots cap -- Calvin -- Liturgy.
In mss in lower left corner: E-160.
Provenance
Daniell; October 1962;
Extent
1 print : sheet 25 x 27 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
786.06.10.01+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Caricatures and cartoons
Illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material
etching ; and laid 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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Identifiers

Orbis Record
7733751
Object ID (OID)
10728148

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