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Subject(s)

• Authors, English—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Booksellers and bookselling—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons [Browse]
• Caricature [Browse]

Notes

• Medium: Etchings, Aquatints, Hand coloring
• Depiction: Dr. Johnson with a book-agent.
• Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson delin.".

Source acquisition

Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.

References

• Grego II, p. 408 (gives date as 1802, republished)
• Grego I, p. 148 ("Bookseller and Author", Separt 25, 1784)

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