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Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
7th April 1788.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a ...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

2.
Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
7th April 1788.
Call Number:
788.04.07.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a ...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

3.
Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
7th April 1788.
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Leaf 39. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a ...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Name):
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Hawkins, John, 1719-1789, Courtenay, John, 1738-1816, and Thrale, Henry, 1728-1781
Subject (Topic):
Ghosts, Studies (Rooms), and Authors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic]

4.
The biographers [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[June 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 810
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 38. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 look...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Publd. June 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Books, Authors, and Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The biographers [graphic]

5.
The biographers [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[June 1786]
Call Number:
786.06.00.01 Impression 1
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 38. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 look...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Publd. June 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Books, Authors, and Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The biographers [graphic]

6.
The biographers [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[June 1786]
Call Number:
786.06.00.01 Impression 2
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 38. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 look...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Publd. June 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Books, Authors, and Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The biographers [graphic]

7.
The biographers [graphic]

Creator:
Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker
Published / Created:
[June 1786]
Call Number:
Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Verso of leaf 38. Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 look...
Description:
Title etched below image
Publisher:
Publd. June 1786 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, and Courtenay, John, 1738-1816
Subject (Topic):
Books, Authors, and Sculpture
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The biographers [graphic]

8.
[Boswell and the ghost of Johnson] [graphic].

Published / Created:
[180-?]
Call Number:
791.00.00.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the left the ghost of Samuel Johnson, in a great swirl of billowing clouds, appears before a startled James Boswell, right hand raised in alarm, who is seated at a table strewn with papers and remnants. In his hand he holds a cushion labeled "Hebr...
Description:
Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Subject (Topic):
Authors and Ghosts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Boswell and the ghost of Johnson] [graphic].