print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1864,0309.179
- Title
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Object: The Vision
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Series: Picturesque Beauties of Boswell. Part the Second.
- Description
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Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. Boswell's nightcap flies upwards from his head. After the title is engraved the passage describing Boswell's night at Slains Castle, 24 Aug., beginning, '"I had a most elegant Room"', and ending, '"I saw, in imagination, Lord Errols Father, Lord Kilmarnock (Who was beheaded on Tower-hill in 1746.) & I was somewhat dreary, but the thought did not last long, and I fell asleep." Vide journal p. 110,' 15 May 1786
Etching
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres
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Width: 264 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)
On the advertisement the title ends 'at Lord Errol's, Slain's Castle'.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 196.
One of a set of twenty plates, 1864,0309.167 to 186, bound together in an album along with letterpress handbills listing the prints and prices for each part (10s. 6d.).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0309.179