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The contest at Auckinleck
Title
The contest at Auckinleck.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. June 10th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No.14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square, [10 June 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 25 x 27 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Library -- Folio volumes -- Scots cap -- Calvin -- Liturgy.
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 First. [London] : [E. Jackson], [1786]
Four lines of verse below title: "The context began whilst my father was shewing hima his collection of medals ..." Vide Journal p. 482.
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.
Summary
"The interior of a library, the walls lined with heavy folio volumes. Johnson attacks Lord Auchinleck (left) with three books inscribed 'Liturgy', held between his upraised hands which conceal his face. Auchinleck shrinks back in alarm; he has dropped two volumes, 'Calvin' and 'Whiggism', to the floor. Medals lie on the ground. Boswell (right) stands in the doorway behind Johnson, biting his thumbs and gazing upwards in consternation; his 'Journal' falls to the ground. He wears his Scots cap, and his ink-pot dangles from his buttonhole. Auchinleck is an elderly man wearing a judge's wig and bands."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2006
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7049
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 197-8
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1786.
Etchings - England - London - 1786.
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