"Engraving, described in the advertisement as 'General Paoli, Dr Johnson, and the Journalist practising his celebrated Imitations'. Johnson and Paoli drag Boswell (right to left) in a roughly constructed child's go-cart. Boswell sits jauntily, kept in place by a stick across his seat; from his mouth issues a blast inscribed 'Moo o oh'. He wears ordinary English dress with a barrister's wig and bands and a Scots cap decorated by two bells; behind his ear is a pen, an ink-bottle is fastened to his coat, in his right hand is a rattle, in the left a book inscribed 'Ogden'. Round his neck is a portrait-medallion inscribed 'Bruce'. From each side of the cart projects a bulky book: 'Corsica' and 'Journal to the Hebri[des]', On the near side of the cart is the monogram 'JB' surmounted by a fool's cap."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
All hail Dalblair
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], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Child's go-cart -- Corsica -- Fool's cap -- Barrister's wig -- Scottish cap., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25.5 x 27.7 cm, on sheet 26.7 x 28.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 51 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 15 May 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary[le]bone Street, Golden Square
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless horse."--British Museum online catalogue, description of trimmed impression lacking imprint statement
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Possibly the same plate as an impression in the British Museum, from which the imprint statement might have been trimmed. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.207., and Mounted on leaf 17 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Novr. 30th, 1785, by J.R. Smith, No. 83 Oxford Street
"A young man, his arm around the waist of a coy young woman, whispers in her ear and gestures towards the cover of a wood at left, at the edge of which they stand; in the mid-distance at right, another man rides away from the wood, leading a riderless horse."--British Museum online catalogue, description of earlier print of which this is a copy
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Irish copy of a print by Rowlandson. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.10.207., and Mounted on leaf 18 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd by H. Brocas and sold at No. 32, New Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin
Print depicts the heads of five officers wearing tricorne hats trimmed with braid. The figure on the left foreground has a quizzing glass
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Officers' uniforms., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 10.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 33.0 x 19.0 cm., One of two plates printed on same sheet., and Mounted on leaf 30 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Reissue with added stippling, altered signatures, and a new publication line. For an earlier state published by T. Smith in 1785, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2., Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed., For an earlier state of the top image on the plate, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 174-5., 1 print : etching and stipple engraving on wove paper, black and white ; sheet 35.1 x 23.5 cm, Trimmed within plate mark on two edges., and Mounted on leaf 9 beneath hand colored sheet, of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Stt
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Titles etched below images., Reissue with added stippling, altered signatures, and a new publication line. For an earlier state published by T. Smith in 1785, see Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2., Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed., For an earlier state of the top image on the plate, see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 174-5., and Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 15th, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Stt
"[Top image] A lady (left) and a yeomanry officer (right), both three-quarter length, sit side by side. She has an open music-book on her lap, and gazes at him. He wears a high feather-trimmed cap, short tunic, and sabre, and is playing a flute. [Bottom image] A young man seated on a settee embraces a young woman who lies across his knees, her head resting on the arm of the settee (right). She kisses him, putting her arm round his neck."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Titles etched below images., For a later state with altered signatures, see no. 8738 and no. 8739 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Two images on one plate, each individually titled and signed., and Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. 12th Augt. 1785 by T. Smith, No. 6 Wardour Street, Soho
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Military officers, Flutes, Hugging, and Kissing
"The pit of a theatre: Boswell stands in the centre of the front row behind a row of spikes, emitting a blast from his mouth, putting his hands on his cheeks. The man next him (right) protects his face with his hat; two men on the left are amused, one claps. Behind him are several rows of laughing heads. Two musicians in the foreground turn their heads."--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 second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Two lines of verse below title: "A great many years ago, when Dr. Hugh Blair & I were sitting together in the pit of Drury-Lane Play-house, in a wild freak of youthful extravagance, I entertained the audience prodigiously, by imitating the lowing of a cow ..." Vide Journal p. 499., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 25.5 x 27.6 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 30.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 70 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20 June, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"The interior of a luxuriously furnished room. A young woman (right), fashionably dressed, looks down demurely as she receives the eager advances of an elderly and toothless man wearing a bag-wig and sword and the ribbon of an order. He covertly gives a purse to a fat and elaborately dressed bawd who stands behind him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 6872 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.8 x 35.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 19 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 30, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Bribery, Courtship, Parlors, Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"The interior of an artist's studio. A young man is seated in an armchair at his easel, with palette and brushes. On the canvas is a classical scene: a goddess surrounded by naked infants. His nude model (right) reclines sleepily on a sofa (right), holding a piece of drapery. Her hat, shoes, and garments are beside her. Two men enter (left) through a door: a young man in riding-dress who stares at the model, an elderly man who holds up his hand in apparent disapproval. The painter turns round as if to prevent their entry. On the wall sketches are pinned (suggesting the art of the history-painter). There is also a statuette on a bracket (right). The room is lit by a window on the painter's left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Painter disturbed
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint; publication information from British Museum catalogue., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 19.0 x 29.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint statement., and Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
