No. III. [DR. JOHNSON's portraits,-referred to in page 353. The note on Dr. Johnson's portraits being incomplete, the editor is obliged to Mr. John Murray, junior, for considerable additions to the list, which are distinguished by brackets.] Date of painting. Engraver's name. Date of engraving. [Prior to A miniature, painter unknown, which belonged to Mrs. Johnson, now in 1752. the possession of Dr. Harwood. See preface, p. xiv. [1756. First engraved for this edition, size of the original E. Finden 1830 A three-quarter face to the left (in an oval); he is dressed in what was styled a seven story wig, and holds a pen up to his eye. The likeness apparently taken before any of Sir Joshua's portraits No artist's name or date] BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. I. Mr. Boswell's picture; sold at James Boswell's sale for seventy guineas. Dr. Johnson in an arm chair, seated at a table with writing materials; pen in his hand.] [Before [This picture has been repeatedly engraved for various editions of this work. II. Now in the Marquis of Stafford's collection. Side face, to right, eyes 1770. almost closed, without wig; showing the nervous habit to which he was addicted, when unemployed, of moving his hands up and down before him, with the fingers extended. It was of this picture that he said, "It is not friendly to hand down to posterity the imperfections of any man.” Sir Joshua is said to have had in his mind this attitude and the abstracted expression of Dr. Johnson's countenance, when he painted the Soothsayer Tiresias in his large picture of the Infant Hercules. An etching of the head only, from a copy of this picture by Ozias Hum 1773. III. Mr. Langton's picture, now at Gunby, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the seat of Peregrine Massingberd, Esq. Mr. Langton's second son. For the Rambler, oval, small size Oval, prefixed to first ed. of Lives of the Poets T. Trotter. T. Cook. Ditto. 1787 1787 Ditto. 1787 Bromley. John Hall. 1779 1779 1778. IV. Mrs. Piozzi's picture, now in the possession of Watson Taylor, Esq. Three-quarter face, to left, holding a book up to his eye. In an oval 8vo., for Murphy's ed. of his works J. Hall. Prefixed to his works, 1823 Audinet. I. Fittler Granger W. T. Fry. 1787 1799 1816 V. Duke of Dorset's picture at Knole, now Lord Plymouth's; a copy of No. II.] [BY BARRY. About Full face, finished only as far as the shoulders, and copied into one of the 1781. large pictures now in the room of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi. The original sketch was sold at Barry's sale to Mr. Manson for 30 guineas. Engraved in line 4to size Ditto, 8vo. with specimens of Dr. Johnson's signature at different periods of his life BY OPIE. Three-quarter face, to the left. Engraved in an oval, prefixed to Dictionary folio [Do. 4to. Folio Mezzotint BY NORTHCOTE. Anker Smith Audinet 1808 1829] [1783. [Three-quarter face, to right, holding a book I. J. De Claussin BY MISS REYNOLDS. 1813] A miniature. This portrait did not please Dr. J., who styled it "Johnson's grimly ghost."] Whole length, in the dress worn by him on the journey to the Hebrides, with his stick, folio Brother of Mr. Townley, of the Commons, an ingenious artist, who resided some time at Berlin, and has the honour of being engraver to his Majesty the King of Prussia. This is one of the finest mezzotintos that ever was executed; and what renders it of extraordinary value, the plate was destroyed after four or five impressions only were taken off. One of them is in the possession of Sir William Scott.-BOSWELL. It is probable that these four or five were merely early impressions taken off from the same plate, the dedication to Mr. Boswell, which distinguishes them, having been erased after they were printed.-J. MURRAY, JUN.] Do. [Side-face, to right, the countenance haggard, and exhibiting marks of decay. This was probably the last portrait for which Dr. Johnson sat; it was finished a short time before his death Do. prefixed to Harding's Shakspeare; drawing belonged Medallion, profile to left, with wig, prefixed to the Dic tionary F. Bartolozzi Do. Bartolozzi G. Murray 1785 1748. Ditto for Sharpe's Johnsoniana 1820 A wood-cut, on the title-page of Sharpe's edition of this work, in 1 vol. Johnsoniana [A view of Tunbridge Wells, in which Dr. and Mrs. Johnson are introduced; the figures very small. See vol. i. p. 68. A whole-length, in a cocked hat, ruffles on the hands, holding a stick behind his back. There is a whole-length figure in Cambridge's works, 4to., drawn and engraved by Besland.] BUST BY NOLLEKENS, [1781. Never cut in marble; the first cast from the mould is now the property of Hon. Agar Ellis. Without the wig; the flowing hair which hangs down the neck copied from a beggar, whom Mr. Smith states to have been called from the street to serve as model. After a drawing from the above Ab. Wivell STATUE BY BACON W. T. Fry In St. Paul's; the first monument ever placed in that building. Repeatedly engraved. 1815] There are also several seals with his head cut on them, particularly a very fine one by that eminent artist, Edward Burch, Esq, R.A.; in the possession of the younger Dr. Charles Burney. [Copied and engraved by . Richter Richter 1797] Let me add, as a proof of the popularity of his character, that there are copper pieces struck at Birmingham, with his head impressed on them, which pass current as halfpence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country. [In this list are enumerated, it is believed, all the original portraits of Dr. Johnson, but only the most remarkable of the engravings taken from them. The valuable and interesting collection of Henry Smedley, Esq. in which will be found almost every print of him which has been published, contains more than one hundred distinct plates, which have been executed at different times. An illustrated copy of Boswell's Life, belonging to Mr. Smith, of the British Museum, in addition to numerous rare impressions of portraits of Dr. Johnson, is embellished with views of all the houses in which he resided; many of them drawn by Mr. Smith himself.-J. MURRAY, JUN.] CONTENTS OF THE GENERAL APPENDIX. I. Recollections of Dr. Johnson, by Miss Reynolds page 383 II. Miscellaneous Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson 398 428 . 444 V. Account of Dr. Johnson's last Dinner at Streatham 445 461 VII. Character of Dr. Johnson, by Dr. Horne X. Lesson in Biography; or, How to write one Friend's XI. Mr. Boswell's Original Dedication and Advertise- XII. Catalogue of Dr. Johnson's Prose Works 473 477 481 483 |