Interior of a drawing room
Drawing
1786 (drawn)
1786 (drawn)
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Pencil drawing depicting the interior of a drawing room, with three groups of figures arranged in a row; the middle one consists of an old lady seated on a sofa with her daughter, who is hiding her face behind her mother's shoulder; the one on the right is an officer with a wooden leg, a sanctified divine in an apron with his thumbs together, and a third person; and finally Johnson and Boswell in conversation on the left. The stockings of the whole party are tinted grey, and also the soldier's wooden leg. A note in the PDP catalogue reads 'A Satire on 'Blue Stockings?'. The drawing is much larger than the etched series and was not used.
Object details
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Title | Interior of a drawing room (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Pencil drawing |
Brief description | Drawing by Samuel Collings depicting an interior of a drawing room, with three groups of figures, an unused sketch for the etched series of Johnson and Boswell's 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell'. Great Britain, 1786. |
Physical description | Pencil drawing depicting the interior of a drawing room, with three groups of figures arranged in a row; the middle one consists of an old lady seated on a sofa with her daughter, who is hiding her face behind her mother's shoulder; the one on the right is an officer with a wooden leg, a sanctified divine in an apron with his thumbs together, and a third person; and finally Johnson and Boswell in conversation on the left. The stockings of the whole party are tinted grey, and also the soldier's wooden leg. A note in the PDP catalogue reads 'A Satire on 'Blue Stockings?'. The drawing is much larger than the etched series and was not used. |
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Credit line | Dyce Bequest |
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Accession number | DYCE.759 |
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Record created | February 1, 2011 |
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