"Three men on the deck of a small sailing-vessel. Boswell, his knees flexed, stands in profile to the left holding the end of a rope and looking at Col, in Highland dress, who holds up his finger admonishingly. His Scots cap flies from his head, his coat-tails blow in the wind, his ink-pot dangles from his neck, his 'Journal' is under his left arm. A sailor (right) stands in back view leaning against the side of the vessel."--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], Four lines of verse below title: "As I saw them all busy doing something, I asked Col. with much earnestness what I could do. He with a happy readiness put into my hand a rope which was fixed to the top of one of the masts ..." Vide Journal p. 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ink pot., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-159.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Inkstands, Dancing, Scottish, Costumes, Sailing ships, and Sailors
Title from item., Number '149' in lower left corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Fish: Lobster -- Trades: Fishwoman -- Innkeeper -- Frenchmen -- Signs: "The good woman" -- Beverages: Wilkes's cordial -- Beverages: Purl -- Allusion to John Wilkes, 1727-1797.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
"Johnson is seated on the ground on the shore of the Firth of Forth; Boswell kneels upon him and playfully holds a fish to his open mouth, holding back the head of his unwilling friend. Behind Johnson stands Ritter, turning his back on the scene. Boswell, with Ogden under his arm, is dressed as in BMSat 7031, &c. In the middle distance (right) are three fishwives, grinning and pointing; they resemble Rowlandson's Billingsgate women. Two persons are in a boat or punt. On the horizon is the opposite shore."--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 First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Three lines of verse below title: "I bought some speldings fish salted and dried in a particular manner being dipped in the sea & dried in the sun ..." Vide Journal p. 50., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fishwives -- Firth of Forth -- Fish -- Fish baskets -- Punt -- Ritter., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-151.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30 May 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Mrs. Abington stands facing three quarters to the right dressed as Scrub in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem', with her hair in tightly curled ringlets (resembling the wig worn by Weston in the part). Her hand is in the pocket of a long, old-fashioned coat worn over an apron. On the wall behind her head is a bust of Farquhar, scowling down at her, disgusted to see a woman play the part. On each side is a picture: on the left the head and shoulders of a man calling "Murder Murder", the frame is inscribed, "Mr Weston in ye part of Scrub". On the right a woman emerges from the funnel of a bottle, as the Bottle Imp. She is of meretricious appearance, holds up a purse in her right hand, a mask in the left; the frame is inscribed, 'For the Benefit of Thalia For this Night only The Pit laid into the Boxes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., 1 print : etching with engraving and stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 27.8 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 29.4 x 21.2 cm., and Mounted on leaf 33 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Publd. 15th Febry. 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Abington, Mrs., 1737-1815 (Frances Barton), and Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.
"Mrs. Abington stands facing three quarters to the right dressed as Scrub in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem', with her hair in tightly curled ringlets (resembling the wig worn by Weston in the part). Her hand is in the pocket of a long, old-fashioned coat worn over an apron. On the wall behind her head is a bust of Farquhar, scowling down at her, disgusted to see a woman play the part. On each side is a picture: on the left the head and shoulders of a man calling "Murder Murder", the frame is inscribed, "Mr Weston in ye part of Scrub". On the right a woman emerges from the funnel of a bottle, as the Bottle Imp. She is of meretricious appearance, holds up a purse in her right hand, a mask in the left; the frame is inscribed, 'For the Benefit of Thalia For this Night only The Pit laid into the Boxes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides., and Mounted on page 49 with one other print.
Publisher:
Publd. 15th Febry. 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Abington, Mrs., 1737-1815 (Frances Barton), and Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.
"Mrs. Abington stands facing three quarters to the right dressed as Scrub in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem', with her hair in tightly curled ringlets (resembling the wig worn by Weston in the part). Her hand is in the pocket of a long, old-fashioned coat worn over an apron. On the wall behind her head is a bust of Farquhar, scowling down at her, disgusted to see a woman play the part. On each side is a picture: on the left the head and shoulders of a man calling "Murder Murder", the frame is inscribed, "Mr Weston in ye part of Scrub". On the right a woman emerges from the funnel of a bottle, as the Bottle Imp. She is of meretricious appearance, holds up a purse in her right hand, a mask in the left; the frame is inscribed, 'For the Benefit of Thalia For this Night only The Pit laid into the Boxes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Publisher:
Publd. 15th Febry. 1786 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Name):
Abington, Mrs., 1737-1815 (Frances Barton), and Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707.
"Johnson and Boswell, attended by Ritter, depart from Boswell's house on foot; Mrs. Boswell stands in the doorway weeping and holding up a handkerchief. Johnson, his stick in his right hand, pulls Boswell by the right arm; Boswell, turning to look at his wife, weeps unrestrainedly. He holds his handkerchief to his eyes; 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal' are under his right arm. He wears the feathered Scots cap, the pen, and barrister's wig as in BMSat 7031. His ink-bottle hangs from a buttonhole. Between Boswell and his wife stands the moustachioed Ritter wearing a wide cocked hat and holding a long stick in both hands; a large pack is on his back."--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 First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], Four lines of verse below title: "Wednesday 18th August, on this day we set out from Edinburgh, attended by my man Joseph Ritter, a Bohemian, a fine stately fellow above 6 feet high ..." Vide Journal p. 47., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ogden -- Joseph Ritter -- Man servant -- Bohemian., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-150.
Publisher:
Publish'd 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"A confused design: in the centre the kings of England (left) and Prussia (right) sit together under a canopy; they turn their heads in profile, gazing intently at each other. Behind George III's chair a British sailor lounges, behind Frederick's a Prussian grenadier with a musket stands erect. Frederick holds the ends of two chains attached to the necks of the Habsburg eagle beneath the feet of the two kings; the two beaks of the bird hold a scroll inscribed 'Universal Monarchy'; with its claws it strikes fiercely at the prostrate bodies of a man and woman, evidently intended for inhabitants of the United Provinces. Beneath the bird is the word 'Austria'. On the sides of the canopy under which the kings sit are shields, one (left) inscribed 'Hanover Brunswick Hesse', the other (right), 'Saxony Deux Pont Mayence &c', representing German States under the control or influence of England and of Prussia. On the left and right of the two kings, as if supporters to an escutcheon, are whole length figures on a large scale of military officers; each holds the hilt of his sword, saying, "Whilst you agree I am ready". One (left) is the 'Reigg Duke of Brunswick', the other 'Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick'. In the lower right corner of the design a Frenchman wearing a bag-wig milks a cow inscribed 'Holland'; a dog barks at him angrily. Next the cow a man seated on the ground, probably intended for the Stadtholder, holds up his hands imploringly to the two kings, saying, "Pray protect me". Isolated figures round the two sides and upper edge of the design represent the other Powers of Europe: a crowned bear (left) inscribed 'Russia', couchant, looks greedily towards a much smaller bear inscribed 'Poland'. Russia says, "Tortur'd by Ambition - back'd by Brother Joseph"; Poland answers, "I am not muzzled". The bust of an oriental wearing a turban (Turkey) looks over its shoulder (across Poland) towards Russia, saying, "By the great Prophet thou art but a Woman". A crowned monkey with a sceptre and shield, representing Louis XVI, is seated on a globe inscribed 'Holland', saying, "Mundus vult decipi". Down the right side of the print are three crowned busts looking towards the two kings: Sardinia says, "You shall not Settle without me"; Spain says, "Oh. give me the Rock" (cf. BMSat 6025, &c), Portugal says, "Oh! buy my Wine" (an allusion to the preference to Portuguese wines, given by the Methuen treaty and threatened by the pending commercial treaty with France). On the left side Sweden says, "I am in the pay of France"; Denmark says, "I lay by at present"."--British museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from Grego and British Museum Catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1786 by S. Hedges No. 91 Cornhill
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, 1721-1792, Carl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, 1735-1806, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1741-1790, Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, 1726-1796, Maria I, Queen of Portugal, 1734-1816, Gustav III, King of Sweden, 1746-1792, Christian VII, King of Denmark and Norway, 1749-1808, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796, and Abdülhamid I, Sultan of the Turks, 1725-1789
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: High grate -- Pictures amplify subject -- Clergyman preaching -- Expressions of speech: Sly-boots.
