File:The Biographers (BM Y,10.196).jpg
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Artist |
Print made by: James Sayers
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Title |
The Biographers |
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Description |
English: Unfinished proof. The three biographers of Johnson sit under his bust, which frowns down at them from a high rectangular pedestal. Mrs. Thrale (left) and Boswell (right) sit facing each other; she leans back, her head turned in 'profil perdu' towards Johnson (who looks at her); she holds a large open book, the pages headed 'Memoirs \ Life of Dr Johnson'; her pen is in her right hand. Boswell writes busily in an open book on whose left page is depicted a bear on its hind legs, holding a large stick, a chain attached to its muzzle. Between them is a small table at a corner of which Boswell writes. At its farther side, with his back to the bust, sits Courtenay scratching his forehead in perplexity, his elbow supported on a book inscribed 'Joe Miller'. Beneath the design is etched:
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Depicted people | Representation of: James Boswell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1786 date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
Y,10.196 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on 'Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson' by Mrs. Thrale (Piozzi), see BMSat 7051; on Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides', see BMSat 7028, &c, and on John Courtenay's 'Poetical Review of the literary . . . Character of the late Samuel Johnson'. The last is alleged to rely on the jests of Joe Miller for inspiration. See also BMSat 7417. Placed in Sarah Sophia Banks's album of the work of James Sayers. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Y-10-196 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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