Setting out from Edinburgh [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd 30 May 1786, by E. Jackson Mary-le-bone Street Golden Square
[30 May 1786]

Copyright Date:

[30 May 1786]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 25.4 x 27.8 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7039
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]
Four lines of verse below title: "Wednesday 18th August, on this day we set out from Edinburgh, attended by my man Joseph Ritter, a Bohemian, a fine stately fellow above 6 feet high ..." Vide Journal p. 47.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Ogden -- Joseph Ritter -- Man servant -- Bohemian.
Daniell ; 1 Oct. 1962 ; Acquisitions no.: 962-10-1-29
In mss. in lower left corner: E-150.

Abstract:

"Johnson and Boswell, attended by Ritter, depart from Boswell's house on foot; Mrs. Boswell stands in the doorway weeping and holding up a handkerchief. Johnson, his stick in his right hand, pulls Boswell by the right arm; Boswell, turning to look at his wife, weeps unrestrainedly. He holds his handkerchief to his eyes; 'Ogden' (see BMSat 7031) and the 'Journal' are under his right arm. He wears the feathered Scots cap, the pen, and barrister's wig as in BMSat 7031. His ink-bottle hangs from a buttonhole. Between Boswell and his wife stands the moustachioed Ritter wearing a wide cocked hat and holding a long stick in both hands; a large pack is on his back."--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:

786.05.30.04+

Orbis Record:

7733281

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05998

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728137

PID:

digcoll:550907