Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.

Creator:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823, artist.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publ. by Thos. Cornell,
7th April 1788.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25 x 17.8 cm, on sheet 30 x 27 cm.

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Notes:

Title etched below image.

Abstract:

A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a night shirt who with his right hand points to the portraits of James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins on the wall and in his left hand holds a money purse. Another portrait on the far right depicts John Courtenay with a pen in his hand looking toward a bust of Prisian. On her desk is a letter "D Johnson ... Letters Dear Lady", implying that she has been concoting Johnson's letters to her. Immediately above her desk in the middle of the wall of books, a violin, an allusion to her second husband a musician, obscures the portrait of her first husband Henry Thrale.

Variant Titles:

Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters

Topics:

Ghosts.
Studies (Rooms)
Writers.

Topics:

Boswell, James,--1740-1795--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Courtenay, John,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Hawkins, John,--1719-1789--Caricatures and cartoons.
Johnson, Samuel,--1709-1784--Caricatures and cartoons.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Thrale, Henry,--1728-1781--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
Etchings--England--London--1788.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1788.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Folio 75 Sa85 782 (Oversize)

Orbis Record:

8070926

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr30268b

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7417

OID:

16194426

PID:

digcoll:4047670