The biographers [graphic] / JS [monogram] f.

Creator:

Sayers, James, 1748-1823, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[June 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 27.6 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 42 x 32 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2814743

Notes:

Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Temporary local subject terms: Joe Miller's Jests.
Title etched below image
Twelve lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Three authors in three sister kingdoms born, the shrine of Johnson with their works adorn ...

Abstract:

"The three biographers of Johnson sit under his bust, which frowns down at them from a high rectangular pedestal. Mrs. Thrale (left) and Boswell (right) sit facing each other; she leans back, her head turned in 'profil perdu' towards Johnson (who looks at her); she holds a large open book, the pages headed 'Memoirs \ Life of Dr Johnson'; her pen is in her right hand. Boswell writes busily in an open book on whose left page is depicted a bear on its hind legs, holding a large stick, a chain attached to its muzzle. Between them is a small table at a corner of which Boswell writes. At its farther side, with his back to the bust, sits Courtenay scratching his forehead in perplexity, his elbow supported on a book inscribed 'Joe Miller'."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Authors.
Books.
Sculpture.

Topics:

Boswell, James,--1740-1795--Caricatures and cartoons.
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792, publisher.
Courtenay, John,--1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
Eldon, John Scott,--Earl of,--1751-1838--Ownership.
Johnson, Samuel,--1709-1784--Caricatures and cartoons.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch,--1741-1821--Caricatures and cartoons.
Sayers, James,--1748-1823--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1786.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1786.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Folio album of 144 caricatures.

Call Number:

Folio 75 Sa85 810

Orbis Record:

7733393

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr33010

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7052

OID:

16819337

PID:

digcoll:4776544