The vision [graphic].

Description

Title: The vision [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Collings, Samuel, artist.
Jackson, Elizabeth, active 1785-1788, publisher.
Published / Created: [15 May 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Abstract: "Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
One in a series of twenty plates by Rowlandson after S. Collings. See: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, page 345.
Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]
Sheet trimmed within plate mark
Three lines of verse below title: "I had the most elegant room, by there was a fire in it that blazed, And the sea to which my windows looked roared, & the pillows were made of sea fowls feathers ..." Vide Journal p. 110.
Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Headless spectre.
1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 26.4 cm, on sheet 27.7 x 35.7 cm.
Printed on wove paper; hand-colored.
Provenance: Brian Maidment; July 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English