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Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters

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  • "Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. Johnson's letters"

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  • "A satirical print rebuking the many writers who profited by writing memoirs of Samuel Johnson. On the left, Mrs. Piozzi is seated at her writing desk in her study. With a look of astonishment. she looks behind her at the ghost of Samuel Johnson in a night shirt who with his right hand points to the portraits of James Boswell and Sir John Hawkins on the wall and in his left hand holds a money purse. Another portrait on the far right depicts John Courtenay with a pen in his hand looking toward a bust of Prisian. On her desk is a letter "D Johnson ... Letters Dear Lady", implying that she has been concoting Johnson's letters to her. Immediately above her desk in the middle of the wall of books, a violin, an allusion to her second husband a musician, obscures the portrait of her first husband Henry Thrale."

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  • "Watermarks (Paper)"
  • "Satires (Visual works)"
  • "Caricatures and cartoons"
  • "Etchings"
  • "Annotations (Provenance)"

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  • "Frontispiece for the 2d edition of Dr. J-----n's letters"

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