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The embrace
Title
The embrace.
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 ; sheet 24.8 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Post-boy.
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]
Two lines of verse below title: "On Saturday the 14th of August 1773 late in the evening I received a note from him that he was arrived at Boyd's Inn at the head of the Cannongate ..." Vide Journal p. 12.
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
"Johnson (right) and Boswell (left) embrace; Boswell, his face hidden behind that of Johnson, holds up his hat as if in triumph. Johnson, wearing hat and boots, holds his oak stick; his eyes are closed; a large book protrudes from his coat-pocket. The post-boy (left) stands warming his back at the fire watching the embrace. A bare-legged man (right), scratching his tousled head, holds out a bowl to Boswell."--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. 7033
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 193-4
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1786.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
Etchings - England - London - 1786.
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