'Dr Johnson in his travelling dress, as described in Boswell's Tour,' c1773, (1786). Artist: Thomas Trotter

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'Dr Johnson in his travelling dress, as described in Boswell's Tour,' c1773, (1786). The famous English lexicographer wearing tricorne hat, frock coat, waistcoat, breeches and boots, while on a walking tour of the Scottish Hebrides with his biographer James Boswell. Boswell published his account in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).

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