File:Dr Johnson in his travelling dress as described in Boswells tour. (BM 1863,1017.80).jpg

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Dr Johnson in his travelling dress as described in Boswells tour.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Trotter

Published by: George Kearsley the elder
Title
Dr Johnson in his travelling dress as described in Boswells tour.
Description
English: Whole length portrait of Johnson (not caricatured) walking (left to right) in a mountainous landscape. He walks with a tall stick; his left hand is held up as if declaiming. Behind and below him walks Boswell, a minute figure. In the middle distance (right) is a thatched cottage and a man on horseback leading a saddle-horse. In the foreground (right) is a thistle. Beneath the title is engraved:


'The Drs reply to Mr B------on the loss of his Oak Stick in the Hebrides.
"No, no, my Friend, it is not to be expected that any Man in Mull who has got it will part with it. Consider, Sir, the value of such a piece of Timber Here!' 18 January 1786


Engraving and etching
Depicted people Representation of: Dr Samuel Johnson
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 274 millimetres
Width: 187 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1863,1017.80
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of many prints on Boswell's 'Tour to the Hebrides', the first edition published Oct. 1785. See BMSat 7029-52. Reproduced, Paston, pl. CI. A copy by C. J. Smith was published by John Murray in 1836. .....................................

Johnson had brought an oak stick with him from London for his tour of Scotland; while riding a horse on Mull he gave it to a man for safe-keeping but it was never returned. Boswell recorded Johnson's response to the incident in his Journal entry for 16 October 1773,
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1863-1017-80
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