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The procession
Title
The procession.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. June 15, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square, [15 June 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 25.5 x 28 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Scots cap -- Waiter -- Lantern -- Gothic niches.
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]
Two lines of verse below title: "After supper we made a Procession to Saint Leonard's College, the Landlord walking before us with a Candle and the Waiter with a Lantern ..." Vide Journal p. 54.
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
"Johnson and Boswell walk together; their landlord, wearing a knitted cap and tartan stockings, walks in front (left) holding a candle; he turns round smiling up at the couple. Johnson walks with a heavy, dignified melancholy, leaning on his stick, Boswell walks jauntily, as in BMSat 7034, his hands thrust in the pockets of his short coat, the Journal under his arm, his pen behind his ear. Behind (right) walks a bare-legged waiter holding a lantern. On the stone wall of a dark building (left) two Gothic niches are indicated."--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. 7042
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 196
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1786.
Etchings - England - London - 1786.
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