Scotch worship [graphic]

Description

Title: Scotch worship [graphic]
Published / Created: [1786?]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Seven men follow closely behind Samuel Johnson, who has a human head but the body of a bear. Johnson wears a tricorne and a cape and holds a staff in his right hand/paw. The man directly behind Johnson squats down with his nose near the tail of Johnson's bear body; the three men at the back wear academic gowns and hats
Description: Title etched beneath lower left corner of image.
Possibly signed in lower right corner using monogrammatic initials.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A reduced copy of a print entitled "Scotch worship of an English idol; his high priest attending", published by Thomas Cornell (active 1780-1792). Cf. The Morgan Library & Museum call number: Peel Vol. 05, no. 273.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
Bound in after page xxxvi (leaf numbered '39' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Spence, J. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Christie's, lot 285 of Derby sale; 20 October 1953.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14 x 17.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, after page xxxvi. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.