The contest at Auckinleck [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. June 10th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No.14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square
[10 June 1786]

Copyright Date:

[10 June 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 25 x 27 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7049
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 197-8

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]
Four lines of verse below title: "The context began whilst my father was shewing hima his collection of medals ..." Vide Journal p. 482.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Library -- Folio volumes -- Scots cap -- Calvin -- Liturgy.
Daniell; October 1962; Acquisitions no.: 960-10-1-39.
In mss in lower left corner: E-160.

Abstract:

"The interior of a library, the walls lined with heavy folio volumes. Johnson attacks Lord Auchinleck (left) with three books inscribed 'Liturgy', held between his upraised hands which conceal his face. Auchinleck shrinks back in alarm; he has dropped two volumes, 'Calvin' and 'Whiggism', to the floor. Medals lie on the ground. Boswell (right) stands in the doorway behind Johnson, biting his thumbs and gazing upwards in consternation; his 'Journal' falls to the ground. He wears his Scots cap, and his ink-pot dangles from his buttonhole. Auchinleck is an elderly man wearing a judge's wig and bands."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Collings, Samuel [Artist]
Jackson, Elizabeth, fl. 1785-1797 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Harvey, Francis
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

786.06.10.01+

Orbis Record:

7733751

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06009

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728148

PID:

digcoll:549975