Page v. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 7029. Johnson (left) climbs up a mountain on hands and knees, his oak stick in his left hand. Boswell follows, also on hands and knees; he licks Johnson's posteriors, saying, "I shall record this". John...
Alternative Title:
Tomtit twittering on an eagle's back-side
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 19th April 1786 by S.W. Fores, at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Subject (Topic):
Mountains, Climbing, Staffs (Sticks), and Thistles
"A scene in 'New Palace Yard' outside a stone building protected by posts and chains, its wall forming a background. Brougham (right), in wig and gown, vigorously pushes a broom against the hindquarters of an ass with the head of Alderman Wood (cf. Br...
Alternative Title:
Good dressing for the identical animal that chews the thistle
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, and Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843
Subject (Topic):
Donkeys, Brooms & brushes, Kicking, Documents, and Thistles
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tatte...
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title from caption below image
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"An elderly Scots bonnet laird or farmer stands repeating the song, which is a complaint of the extravagance and misconduct of his wife. He wears a round Scots bonnet and a tartan plaid over his coat, long stockings, and shoes tied with strings, tatt...
Alternative Title:
Wholly and fairly
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for and sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle la...
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle la...
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
"A fashionably dressed man stands directed to the left, erect and debonair, a cane under his left arm. He takes a pinch of snuff, holding, besides the snuff-box, his top-hat. He has whiskers and small pigtail. From his coat-pocket projects a bottle la...
Alternative Title:
Trip from Oxford to the land of cakes
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Name):
Ireland, John, 1745-1839
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicines, Pills, Staffs (Sticks), Snuff, and Thistles
George III, surrounded by members of the present and former governments, stands on the British shore of the Atlantic Ocean. He holds out his arms in a gesture of uncertainty asking, "My Lords and Gentlemen, what should I do." Each of the statesmen giv...
Description:
BEIN BrSides 2019 472: On sheet 29.5 x 36.8 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, by M. Smith in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793., Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788., Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806., Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805., Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Nugent, Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl, 1702?-1788., Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725-1786., Dunning, John, Baron Ashburton, 1731-1783., and Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Foreign relations, Fighting, Disabled veterans, Witches, Thistles, and Clothing & dress
"Whitbread, his body, limbs, and head covered by tubs of varying shapes and sizes, raises a drayman's pole, to which is attached a hooked chain to smite the drooping head of a thistle with the features of Melville, his profile facing the ground; the f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Thistles, Taverns (Inns), Signs (Notices), and Ships
"Whitbread, his body, limbs, and head covered by tubs of varying shapes and sizes, raises a drayman's pole, to which is attached a hooked chain to smite the drooping head of a thistle with the features of Melville, his profile facing the ground; the f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by H. Humphrey, St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, and Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820
Subject (Topic):
Barrels, Thistles, Taverns (Inns), Signs (Notices), and Ships
