Picturesque Beauties of Boswell
Print
19/04/1786 (published)
19/04/1786 (published)
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Walking up the High Street, Edinburgh; After Henry William Bunbury; Part of 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'; Etching print on paper.
One of a series of caricatures, illustrative of James Boswell’s 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.' (first published in 1785), entitled 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'.
One of a series of caricatures, illustrative of James Boswell’s 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.' (first published in 1785), entitled 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'.
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| Materials and techniques | etching print on paper |
| Brief description | Walking up the High Street, Edinburgh; Etching print on paper; Part of the set 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'; By Thomas Rowlandson, after Samuel Collings; English School; Published by E. Jackson and G. Kearsley, London, 1786. |
| Physical description | Walking up the High Street, Edinburgh; After Henry William Bunbury; Part of 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'; Etching print on paper. One of a series of caricatures, illustrative of James Boswell’s 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.' (first published in 1785), entitled 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Part of a series of caricatures, illustrative of James Boswell’s 'The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.' (first published in 1785), entitled 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'. This set is incomplete, wanting Plate II. of the first part, 'The Journalist with a view of Auchinleck, or Land of Stones', and Plate I. of the second part, 'Revising for the second edition, under the inspection of a learned friend', and also the list of plates for each part. |
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| Literary reference | Boswell, James. <u>The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.</u>. First published in 1785. |
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| Bibliographic reference | DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum : Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1874. |
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| Accession number | DYCE.3031 |
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| Record created | April 27, 2010 |
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