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A tour to the Hebrides   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A tour to the Hebrides
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 7030. Johnson, as a bear with a human head (a profile portrait), walks (left to right) up a mountain. Boswell as an ape with a quasi-human head is seated on the bear's back facing the tail, which he holds up, beckoning with his right hand to two bare-legged men in Highland dress who are climbing up the mountain behind Johnson. In the foreground are thistles. Beneath the title is engraved 'Bossy Bounce preparing for the Scotch Professors to Kiss'. 19 April 1786
Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Dr Samuel Johnson
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 201 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,3.67
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on Boswell's 'Tour to the Hebrides'. Cf. Peter Pindar, 'Thou jackall, leading lyon Johnson forth'. See BMSat 7028, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-3-67
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