The biographers [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The biographers [graphic]
- Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
- Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [June 1786]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publd. June 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
- Abstract
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"The three biographers of Johnson sit under his bust, which frowns down at them from a high rectangular pedestal. Mrs. Thrale (left) and Boswell (right) sit facing each other; she leans back, her head turned in 'profil perdu' towards Johnson (who looks at her); she holds a large open book, the pages headed 'Memoirs \ Life of Dr Johnson'; her pen is in her right hand. Boswell writes busily in an open book on whose left page is depicted a bear on its hind legs, holding a large stick, a chain attached to its muzzle. Between them is a small table at a corner of which Boswell writes. At its farther side, with his back to the bust, sits Courtenay scratching his forehead in perplexity, his elbow supported on a book inscribed 'Joe Miller'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image
Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Twelve lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Three authors in three sister kingdoms born, the shrine of Johnson with their works adorn ...
Temporary local subject terms: Joe Miller's Jests.
1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.2 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 29.8 x 21.4 cm.
Mounted on verso of leaf 38 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures. - Provenance
- Bequeathed by James Sayers to his sister and later given to Lord Eldon. Purchased from Christie's sale of Fine Books and Manuscripts, lot 305, 19 June 2012, with Lord Eldon's notebook (now LWL Mss Vol. 202).
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 27.6 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 42 x 32 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 Sa85 810
- Collection Title
- Verso of leaf 38. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
- Collection Date
- [London], [between 1782 and 1810]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England London 1786 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Courtenay, John, 1738-1816 - Subject (Topic)
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Books
Authors
Sculpture - Subjects
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Boswell, James, 1740-1795 > Caricatures and cartoons
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Caricatures and cartoons
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Courtenay, John, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Books
Authors
Sculpture
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 > Ownership
Sayers, James, 1748-1823 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7733393
- Object ID (OID)
- 16819337