The Contest at Auckinleck from 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second', etched by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786 by Samuel Collings
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection
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- The Contest at Auckinleck from 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second', etched by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786
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- Samuel Collings
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image shows Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84) attacking Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1707-82) with books inscribed 'liturgy', Auchinleck drops two books, 'Calvin' and 'Whiggism'; James Boswell (1740-95) stands in the doorway biting his thumbs and drops his journal; James Boswell wrote 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'; image is one in a series of pictures about Boswell and Johnson's journey to Scotland;
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