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The vision
Title
The vision.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square, [15 May 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple in sepia ink ; sheet 25 cm x 27 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Highland dress -- Scots cap -- Bed curtains -- Nightmare -- Headless spectre.
Notes
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
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"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.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 09, 2006
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7043
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 196
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1786.
Etchings - England - London - 1786.
Watermarks (Paper) - G R.
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