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Lodging at a M'Queen's
Title
Lodging at a M'Queen's [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. 20 June 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square, [20 June 1786]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 25.6 x 28 cm
Medium
laid paper.
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]
Five lines of verse below title: "There were two beds in the room, and a woman's gown was hung on a rope to make a curtain of seperation [sic] between them ..." Vide Journal p. 153.
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
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his bed. A gigantic spider descends towards his head, insects are spotted over the bedclothes and pillow, from which projects Ogden (see BMSat 7031). Johnson lies on his back (left) under a casement window, his eyes closed, his hands clasped as if in prayer, his knees drawn up to accommodate the shortness of the bed. A woman's dress hangs as an improvised curtain between the two beds. Under Johnson's bed two rats gnaw Boswell's wig."--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. 7044
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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