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Revising for the second edition
Title
Revising for the second edition.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. 15 June 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square, [15 June 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with stipple ; sheet 26 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: "Having found on a revision of this work that a few observations had escaped me the publication of which might be considered as passing the bounds of a strict decorm, I immediately ordered that they should be omitted in the present edition ..." "Vide Journal p. 527, 2nd ed."
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
"A laird in Highland dress (left) seizes Boswell by the throat. The latter is seated at his writing-table, holding up his hands in supplication. His 'Journal' is open at pp. '168' and '169'. The laird, Sir Alexander Macdonald, points with his cane at p. 169; torn-out pages lie on the floor, one is '165', another '167'. On the wall of the bare, boarded room are (left) 'A Map of Skye' showing 'Armidale' and (right) 'View [of] Auchenleck, the Seat of' (name obscured by Boswell's cap). Boswell is dressed as in BMSat 7031, &c, his pen is in the inkpot which stands on the table, its ribbon hanging from it."--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. 7041
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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