Wit and wisdom [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. 15 May 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14, Mary-bone Street. Golden Square
[15 May 1786]

Copyright Date:

[15 May 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 25.7 x 27.6 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7038
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 194

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]
Three lines of verse below title: "We gave him as good a dinner as we could. Our Scotch muir-fowl, or growse, were then abundant ..." Vide Journal p. 123.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Scots cap -- Grouse -- Ogden -- Lobster -- Fireplace with hanging pots -- Servants.
Daniell ; October 1, 1962 ; Acquisitions no.: 962-10-1-28.
In mss. in lower left corner: E -149.

Abstract:

"Boswell and his wife in the kitchen prepare a dinner for Johnson, who is seen in back view through an open street-door on the extreme left. They face each other smiling across a small, ramshackle table; Boswell is cutting off the neck of a grouse (which resembles a duck or goose). He wears the Scots cap and the pen behind the ear of BMSat 7031, &c., with an apron. From his pocket project 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal'. Mrs. Boswell holds a rolling-pin. Behind (right) is a slatternly maidservant in back view looking to the left with a smile. On the ground are two piles of large birds intended for grouse, and an enormous lobster. Behind is a primitive kitchen fireplace; two large pots are suspended over the fire. The spit rests horizontally above the fireplace."--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
Boswell, Margaret Montgomerie, d. 1789
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:

786.05.15.08+ Impression 1

Orbis Record:

7731917

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05974

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728116

PID:

digcoll:550483