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No. III.

[DR. JOHNSON's portraits,-referred to in page 353.

The note on Dr. Johnson's portraits being incomplete, the editor is obliged to Mr. John Murray, junior, for considerable additions to the list, which are distinguished by brackets.]

Engraver's name.

Date of engraving.

Date of painting. [Prior to A miniature, painter unknown, which belonged to Mrs. Johnson, now in 1752. the possession of Dr. Harwood. See preface, p. xiv.

[1756.

First engraved for this edition, size of the original E. Finden 1830 A three-quarter face to the left (in an oval); he is dressed in what was styled a seven story wig, and holds a pen up to his eye. The likeness apparently taken before any of Sir Joshua's portraits. No artist's name or date]

BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

I. Mr. Boswell's picture; sold at James Boswell's sale for seventy guineas. Dr. Johnson in an arm chair, seated at a table with writing materials; pen in his hand.]

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[This picture has been repeatedly engraved for various editions of this work. II. Now in the Marquis of Stafford's collection. Side face, to right, eyes 1770. almost closed, without wig; showing the nervous habit to which he was addicted, when unemployed, of moving his hands up and down before him, with the fingers extended. It was of this picture that he said, "It is not friendly to hand down to posterity the imperfections of any man."

Sir Joshua is said to have had in his mind this attitude and the abstracted
expression of Dr. Johnson's countenance, when he painted the Soothsayer
Tiresias in his large picture of the Infant Hercules.
Folio, mezzotint, very fine

8vo. Mezzotint for Sir Joshua's works

James Watson.
S. W. Reynolds.

1770

An etching of the head only, from a copy of this picture by Ozias Hum

1773.

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III. Mr. Langton's picture, now at Gunby, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the seat of Peregrine Massingberd, Esq. Mr. Langton's second son.

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1779

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Oval, prefixed to first ed. of Lives of the Poets T. Trotter.

4to. prefixed to Dictionary

In stipple

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published by Robinson

1778.

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IV. Mrs. Piozzi's picture, now in the possession of Watson Taylor, Esq.
Three-quarter face, to left, holding a book up to his eye.
In an oval 8vo., for Murphy's ed. of his works J. Hall.

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1787

1799

1816

V. Duke of Dorset's picture at Knole, now Lord Plymouth's; a copy of No. II.]

[BY BARRY.

About Full face, finished only as far as the shoulders, and copied into one of the 1781. large pictures now in the room of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi. The original sketch was sold at Barry's sale to Mr. Manson for 30 guineas.

Engraved in line 4to size

Ditto, 8vo. with specimens of Dr. Johnson's signature at different periods of his life

BY OPIE.

Three-quarter face, to the left. Engraved in

an oval, prefixed to Dictionary folio

[Do. 4to.

Folio Mezzotint

BY NORTHCOTE.

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[1783.

[Three-quarter face, to right, holding a book I. J. De Claussin

BY MISS REYNOLDS.

1813]

A miniature. This portrait did not please Dr. J., who styled it “Johnson's grimly ghost."]

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Whole length, in the dress worn by him on the journey to the Hebrides, with his stick, folio

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* Brother of Mr. Townley, of the Commons, an ingenious artist, who resided some time at Berlin, and has the honour of being engraver to his Majesty the King of Prussia. This is one of the finest mezzotintos that ever was executed; and what renders it of extraordinary value, the plate was destroyed after four or five impressions only were taken off. One of them is in the possession of Sir William Scott.-BOSWELL. [It is probable that these four or five were merely early impressions taken off from the same plate, the dedication to Mr. Boswell, which distinguishes them, having been erased after they were printed.-J. MURRAY, JUN.]

[Side-face, to right, the countenance haggard, and exhibiting marks of decay. This was probably the last portrait for which Dr. Johnson sat; it was finished

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1748.

Ditto for Sharpe's Johnsoniana

A wood-cut, on the title-page of Sharpe's edition of this work, in 1 vol.

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Unknown

J. Taylor

1756

Johnsoniana
For "Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy," in which Johnson's countenance
is analysed upon the principles of that fanciful writer.

[A view of Tunbridge Wells, in which Dr. and Mrs. Johnson are introduced; the figures very small. See vol. i. p. 68.

Loggan

1804

A whole-length, in a cocked hat, ruffles on the hands, holding a stick behind his back Not known

There is a whole-length figure in Cambridge's works, 4to., drawn and engraved by Besland.]

BUST BY NOLLEKENS,

[1781. Never cut in marble; the first cast from the mould is now the property of Hon. Agar Ellis. Without the wig; the flowing hair which hangs down the neck copied from a beggar, whom Mr. Smith states to have been called from the street to serve as model.

After a drawing from the above Ab. Wivell

STATUE BY BACON

W. T. Fry

In St. Paul's; the first monument ever placed in that building.

Repeatedly engraved.

1815]

There are also several seals with his head cut on them, particularly a very fine one by that eminent artist, Edward Burch, Esq, R.A.; in the possession of the younger Dr. Charles Burney. [Copied and engraved by

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Richter

Richter

1797]

Let me add, as a proof of the popularity of his character, that there are copper pieces struck at Birmingham, with his head impressed on them, which pass current as halfpence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country. [In this list are enumerated, it is believed, all the original portraits of Dr. Johnson, but only the most remarkable of the engravings taken from them. The valuable and interesting collection of Henry Smedley, Esq. in which will be found almost every print of him which has been published, contains more than one hundred distinct plates, which have been executed at different times.

An illustrated copy of Boswell's Life, belonging to Mr. Smith, of the British Museum, in addition to numerous rare impressions of portraits of Dr. Johnson, is embellished with views of all the houses in which he resided; many of them drawn by Mr. Smith himself.—J. MURRAY, JUN.]

GENERAL APPENDIX.

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