Picturesque Beauties of Boswell
The publicity around Boswell and Johnson’s travels prompted the publication of a series of graphic satires recasting their tour in comic terms. Several of these mocked Boswell’s ancestry and titled status as well as his literary pretensions. In the frontispiece to the series, he is portrayed as a childish, deluded laird holding a rattle, his carriage drawn by Johnson and Pasquale Paoli, an exiled Corsican patriot and friend of Boswell who had led Corsica’s struggle for independence.
1785-86, London
Hand coloured engraving
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