'The Journalist with a view of Auchinleck or The Land of Stones', c : Thomas Rowlandson

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'The Journalist with a view of Auchinleck or The Land of Stones', c 1786. Caricature of Scots writer James Boswell (1740-1795) on the coast near his family seat of Auchinleck in Scotland. He is wearing tartan and holding manuscript notes for his Life of Samuel Johnson and his 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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