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19. The reconciliation

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 June 1786]
Call Number:: 786.06.20.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The interior of a boarded hut, the inn at Glenelg. Johnson (left) stands by a table, Ogden (see BMSat 7031) open in his right hand, his left held meditatively to his cheek. Boswell (right) kneels beside him, his hands clasped in prayer, his face puckered as if weeping. He wears a hood or bonnet as a night-cap, his legs are bare. Johnson is dressed, wearing slippers; his boots and oak stick lean against the table."--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], Five lines of verse below title: "I resumed the subject of my leaving him on the road, & endeavoured to defend it better ..." Vide Journal p. 164., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ogden -- Literature quotations -- Interior of boarded hut., and In mss. in lower left corner: E -156.
Publisher:: Pubd. June 20th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The reconciliation

20. The recovery

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [20 June 1786]
Call Number:: 786.06.20.04+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Johnson and Boswell sit at a small circular table in a plainly furnished room. Boswell holds his head, leaning on the table, and pointing with his left hand at an open book inscribed 'Twentieth Sunday after Trinity'; he looks with abject supplication at Johnson, who leans back in his chair, his right hand raised as if speaking oracularly. Boswell's forehead is bandaged, his shoes are unlatched, his breeches unbuttoned at the knee, from his coat-pocket protrudes 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031). A water-bottle and a bowl are on the floor beside him. Johnson wears his top-boots. Above Boswell's head is a picture of a pig under a vine, suffering from a surfeit."--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: "I awaked at noon with a severe head ach I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot and afraid of a reproof from Dr. Johnson ..." Vide Journal p. 318., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Drunken frolic -- Head ache -- Water bottle., and In mss. in lower left corner: E-158.
Publisher:: Pubd. 20 June, 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.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The recovery

21. The vision

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.15.09+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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 British Museum catalogue, v. 6, page 345., Plate from: Picturesque beauties of Boswell, Part the Second. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786], 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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
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.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The vision

22. Veronica, a breakfast conversation

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [30 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.30.05+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Johnson (left) sits at a small rectangular breakfast-table with his back to the door. A nursemaid behind him holds the infant Veronica, who leans forward, pushing Johnson's wig from his head; he holds up his finger admonishingly and does not appear pleased, though all the others smile admiringly. These are: Mrs. Boswell, seated (right) opposite Johnson; Boswell standing beside Johnson and clasping his hands over 'Ogden' (cf. BMSat 7031); the two visitors, Mr. Scott and Sir William Forbes; the tousled foot-boy, who carries in a tray of tea-things which he is about to place beside the urn on the otherwise bare table. Three pictures decorate the wall: 'Sancta Veronica', kneeling in prayer before a reading-desk; a medallion inscribed 'Bruce' and a half length portrait of 'Alexander of Kincardin' dressed as a courtier."--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: "Mr. Johnson was pleas'd with my daughter Veronica, then a child of about four-months old she had the appearance of listening to him ..." Vide Journal p. 17., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Ogden -- Nursemaid -- Tea tray -- Tea urn -- Mr. Scott -- Portrait on wall: Alexander of Kincardin -- Portrait on wall: Bruce., and In mss in lower left corner: E-148.
Publisher:: Pubd. May 30th 1786, by E Jackson, No. 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, Boswell, James, 1740-1795., and Forbes, William, Sir, 1739-1806
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Veronica, a breakfast conversation

23. Walking up the High Street

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.15.06+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Johnson and Boswell walk diagonally from the right towards the spectator. Boswell (right) walks jauntily, holding out a three-cornered hat and looking up at Johnson. Johnson holds his oak stick, and looks down at Boswell, putting his finger to his nose. Behind them a row of six-storied houses recedes in perspective."--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: "Mr. Johnson and I walked arm in arm up the High Street to my house in James Court; it was a dusky night ..." Vide Journal p. 13., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In mss. in lower right corner: E-145.
Publisher:: Publish'd May 15th 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Walking up the High Street

24. Wit and wisdom

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [15 May 1786]
Call Number:: 786.05.15.08+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Boswell and his wife in the kitchen prepare a dinner for Johnson, who is seen in back view through an open street-door on the extreme left. They face each other smiling across a small, ramshackle table; Boswell is cutting off the neck of a grouse (which resembles a duck or goose). He wears the Scots cap and the pen behind the ear of BMSat 7031, &c., with an apron. From his pocket project 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal'. Mrs. Boswell holds a rolling-pin. Behind (right) is a slatternly maidservant in back view looking to the left with a smile. On the ground are two piles of large birds intended for grouse, and an enormous lobster. Behind is a primitive kitchen fireplace; two large pots are suspended over the fire. The spit rests horizontally above the fireplace."--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: "We gave him as good a dinner as we could. Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant ..." Vide Journal p. 123., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Scots cap -- Grouse -- Ogden -- Lobster -- Fireplace with hanging pots -- Servants., and In mss. in lower left corner: E -149.
Publisher:: Pubd. 15 May 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary-bone Street. Golden Square
Subject (Name):: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, -1789, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Wit and wisdom

25. [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 "Hebrides." Behind him on the wall are two shelves of books, many of which are identified by author and title, or numbered, perhaps a reference to his journals that were the basis of his Life of Samuel Johnson. Below the shelves is a framed portrait of Boswell. A quotation from William Congreve's The Way of the World, Act iv, Scene 9 is engraved below the image
Description:: Title and imprint from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Three lines of verse from "Congreve's Way of the world, Act IV, Scene 9", below title, beginning: Thou art a retailer of phrases ..., and A later copy of No. 8281 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
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].