ID 813610
Lot 94 | Picturesque Beauties of Boswell
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
Thomas Rowlandson, 1805
ROWLANDSON, Thomas (1756-1827), illustrator. Picturesque Beauties of Boswell ... Designed and Etched by Two Capital Artists. [London: E. Jackson & G. Kearsley, 1805]. [Bound with:] HUMPHREY, H. Outlines of the Opposition collected from the Designs of the most Capital Jacobin Artists. London, 1794.
Extra-illustrated Rowlandson satire of James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. This copy extra-illustrated with an engraved full-length portrait of Dr. Johnson in the Hebrides by T. Trotter, 1786, and 2 hand-colored satirical plates from Tegg's series on life in Scotland by George Cruikshank, 1810.
Two volumes bound together, oblong folio (346 x 268mm). The first work with 20 hand-colored etched plates by Rowlandson after Collings plus the three extra plates described above, the two by Cruikshank also hand-colored. The second work with seven etched plates (scattered very minor small stains and edge-wear to plates). Later quarter sheep, orange boards title in manuscript (losses to spine, joints cracked, worn). Cloth slipcase. Provenance: Christie’s New York, 9 December 1998, lot 54.
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