A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side [graphic]

Description

Title: A tom tit twittering on an eagle's back-side [graphic]
Alternative Title: Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [19 April 1786]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Published 19th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". Johnson says, "Come Bossy". Behind and below them a loch and mountain (right) are indicated. In the foreground (left) is a huge thistle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
A companion print to: A tour to the Hebrides.
On paper with a watermark (trimmed).
Tipped in at page v in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his bookplate on half-title page of volume. Strawberry Hill Sale, v.186 (with Clark, Johnson, Moir, Piozzi, and Wallace), to Strong, £1.14.0; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 12029, for £1.11.6; Thorpe, 1842, to George Daniel, £1.11.6 (Daniel's note on fly-leaf); Sotheby's, 20 July 1864 (Daniel Sale), lot 202, to Molini, £6.12.6; Sotheby's, 11 June 1895 (Orford Sale), lot 331, to Quaritch, £41; offered in Quaritch's Catalogues in 1895 and 1899; Sotheby's, 19 December 1900 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 597, to Cole, £31; Parke-Bernet, 5 May 1939 (Spoor Sale), lot 1109, to Edgar Wells for Arthur Houghton, $550. Gift of Arthur Houghton; November 1951.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.3 x 23.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 3069
Collection Title: Page v. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Collection / Other Creator: Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Collection Date: London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.