Sailing Among the Hebrides from 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First', etched by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786 by Samuel Collings
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection
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- Sailing Among the Hebrides from 'Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First', etched by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786
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- Samuel Collings
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James Boswell (1740-95), author of 'The Life of Samuel Johnson', on a ship in the Hebrides, he is told by the captain to hold a rope in order to distract him from the perils of the journey; the image is one in a series of pictures about Boswell's journey to Scotland with Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84);
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