(JOHNSON SAMUEL) Dr Johnson in the Anteroom of Lord Chesterf

Sale 2319 - Lot 162

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(JOHNSON, SAMUEL.) Dr. Johnson in the Anteroom of Lord Chesterfield. Glazed color transfer print on ceramic pot lid after detail from a painting by Edward Matthew Ward (1816-79). Approximately 108 mm in diameter, with small chip along edge on left; housed in silk-lined gilt-tooled navy morocco book box. England, later 19th century

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Lord Chesterfield allegedly infuriated Johnson by keeping him waiting to conduct a protracted conversation with the actor Colley Cibber, after Johnson had addressed the prospectus for his Dictionary to Chesterfield. See Boswell, Life, 1791, Volume 1, pages 138-39.