Samuel Collection (page 18)

Where James Boswell first met Dr Johnson, London, (1912). Artist: Frederick Adcock
Where James Boswell first met Dr Johnson, London, (1912). On 16 May 1763, Scottish diarist and man of letters James Boswell (1740-1795) first met English author

Johnsons Corner, the Cheshire Cheese pub, City of London, 1912. Artist: Frederick Adcock
Johnsons Corner, the Cheshire Cheese pub, City of London, 1912. Interior of a public house frequented by English lexicographer and man of letters Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Dr Johnsons House, 17 Gough Square, London, 1912. Artist: Frederick Adcock
Dr Johnsons House, 17 Gough Square, London, 1912. The home of English lexicographer and man of letters Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), now a museum

Samuel Richardsons house, North End, Fulham, London, 1912. Artist: Frederick Adcock
Samuel Richardsons house, North End, Fulham, London, 1912. The home of English writer Samuel Richardson (1689-1761). Fulham, then a village outside London, is now part of the city

Dr Johnson, English literary figure, (1912). Artist: Thomas Trotter
Dr Johnson, English literary figure, (1912). Portrait of dictionary compiler and man of letters Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The Manner of Burning the Martyrs, during the Bloody Reign, of Queen Mary, 1783. Artist: Samuel Sparrow
The Manner of Burning the Martyrs, during the Bloody Reign, of Queen Mary, 1783. The execution of former Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, outside Balliol College, Oxford on 21 March 1556

H. M. S. Hood, 1935
H.M.S. Hood, 1935. Named after the 18th century Admiral Samuel Hood, HMS Hood was the largest ship in the Royal Navy when she was commissioned in 1920

Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), 1897. From Old and New London Vol III by Edward Walford. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, 1897]

Dr Johnsons first interview with John Wilkes, 1866. Artist: W Thomas
Dr Johnsons first interview with John Wilkes, 1866. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of Englands best known literary figures

Part of a letter from James Boswell to David Garrick, Edinburgh, 11 April 1774, (1840). Artist: James Boswell
Part of a letter from James Boswell to David Garrick, Edinburgh, 11 April 1774, (1840). Letter from James Boswell, the diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson to the actor David Garrick

A letter from Dr Johnson, on his finishing the Lives of the Poets, c1780, (1840). Artist: James Boswell
A letter from Dr Samuel Johnson, on his finishing the Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, c1781, (1840). Illustration from Historical

A letter from Samuel Richardson to Dr Smollett, 1756, (1840). Artist: Samuel Richardson
A letter from Samuel Richardson to Dr Smollett, 1756, (1840). The letter is reply to a letter by Smollett denying that he was the author of an article in the Critical Review

A letter from Dr Smollett to Samuel Richardson, 1756, (1840). Artist: Tobias George Smollett
A letter from Dr Smollett to Samuel Richardson, 1756, (1840). View of Monmouth House at Chelsea, in which Smollett wrote his Roderick Random

Bombay, India, late 19th century. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Bombay, India, late 19th century. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Victoria Terminus, Bombay, India, late 19th century. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Tomb of Tippu Sultan and Haidar Ali, Mysore, India, 1880-1890. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

St Andrews Church, Bangalore, India, c1880-1890. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Clive Road, Calcutta, India, c1880-1890. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Bridge over the River Hooghly, Calcutta, India, c1880-1890. Illustration from Inde Anglaise, Sites et Paysages, (English India, Places and Landscapes, published by L Boulanger, Paris)

Matthew Henry (1662-1714), English biblical commentator and clergyman, 19th century. Artist: Samuel Freeman
Matthew Henry (1662-1714), English biblical commentator and clergyman, 19th century

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), English clergyman, 19th century. Artist: Samuel Freeman
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), English clergyman, 19th century. Taylor achieved fame as an author during The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell; he is sometimes referred to as Shakespeare of Divines for his

Charles James Fox (1749-1806), Whig statesman, 19th century. Artist: Samuel Freeman
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), Whig statesman, 19th century

Richard Baxter (1615-1691), English Puritan, church leader and theologian, 19th century. Artist: Samuel Freeman
Richard Baxter (1615-1691), English Puritan, church leader and theologian, 19th century

View from the Terrace at Oatland, 18th century. Artist: Francois Vivares
View from the Terrace at Oatland, 19th century. Oatlands is a village and small district near Weybridge in Surrey which has acquired its named from Oatlands Palace

Interior of the Burlington Arcade, Westminster, London, 19th century. Situated off Piccadilly, Burlington Arcade was designed in 1819 by Samuel Ware

Marlborough House, London. Artist: Charles Grignion
Marlborough House, London. Marlborough House was built on Pall Mall in 1709-1711 by Sir Christopher Wren for the 1st Duke of Marlborough

The East India House, City of London, late 18th century. Artist: B Green
The East India House, City of London, late 18th century. Founded in 1600, the British East India Company effectively ruled India from 1757 until after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 when

Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace, Westminster, London. Artist: J Green
Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace, Westminster, London. Exterior view of the Banqueting House, designed by Inigo Jones for James I and completed in 1622

Wards House, Hackney, London, 1805. Artist: Samuel Rawle
Wards House, Hackney, London, 1805

Letter by Samuel Pepys to John Jackson, Esq, 1700 (1865). Artist: Frederick George Netherclift
Letter by Samuel Pepys to John Jackson, Esq, 1700 (1865). A print from The Autograph Souvenir, A collection of Autograph Letters, Interesting Documents, &c, Executed in Facsimile

Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), Bishop of Winchester. The son of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), philanthropist and campaigner for the abolition of slavery

The Ghopal Bhawan, Deeg, Rajasthan, India, c1925. The Gopal Bhavan palace dates from c1763. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Indian Empire, 2nd series

Church of St John and Castle Lahneck on the Rhine, 1838. Artist: R Wallis
Church of St John and Castle Lahneck on the Rhine, 1838. People laying out pieces of cloth near the town of Koblenz in Germany

Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer, c1880. Artist: Moritz Klinkicht
Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer, c1880. Known popularly as the sailors friend because of his championing of sailors interests

James II of England, (18th century). Artist: Reynolds Grignion
James II of England, (18th century). Portrait of James (1633-1701), the second surviving son of King Charles I, who became king on the death of his brother, Charles II

King James II of England, (1787). Artist: John Goldar
King James II of England, (1787). Portrait of James (1633-1701), the second surviving son of King Charles I, who became king on the death of his brother, Charles II

Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet and satirist, (c1850). Butler (1612-1680) is best remembered for Hudibras, a satirical poem on Puritanism. Taken from the book Old Englands Worthies

A French Family, 1790. Artist: Samuel Alken
A French Family, 1790. An anti-French view of our continental cousins: a dog wearing clothes, a man with an effete hairstyle, a child showing her legs

James Boswell, his wife, and Dr Johnson at tea in Edinburgh, 1773, (1786). Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
James Boswell, his wife, and Dr Johnson at tea in Edinburgh, 1773, (1786). Scots writer James Boswell and his wife Margaret at tea with English lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson

The Journalist with a view of Auchinleck or The Land of Stones, c 1786. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
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

Dr Johnson in his travelling dress, as described in Boswells Tour, c1773, (1786). Artist: Thomas Trotter
Dr Johnson in his travelling dress, as described in Boswells Tour, c1773, (1786). The famous English lexicographer wearing tricorne hat, frock coat, waistcoat, breeches and boots

Old Wisdom blinking at the stars, 1782. Artist: W Rennie
Old Wisdom blinking at the stars, 1782. Man of letters and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), as a wise owl, looks at busts of Milton and Pope

The Buck Metamorphosed... 1754.Artist: G Smith
The Buck Metamorphosed or Mr Foote in the character of the Englishman return d from Paris, 1754. A comment on French fashions which were seen as foppish by the British

Sir Samuel Romilly, English legal reformer, (1836). Artist: R Woodman
Sir Samuel Romilly, English legal reformer, (1836). Romilly (1757-1818) devoted himself to the lessening of the severity of English criminal law

Samuel Hood (1724-1816), 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, 1837. Artist: Thomas Phillibrown
Samuel Hood (1724-1816), 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral, 1837

The ruins of Laodicea, 1887. Artist: W Wallis
The ruins of Laodicea, 1887. Laodicea was the name for at least six Hellenistic cities, which were named for one of the several queens named Laodice in the Seleucid dynasty

The town and isthmus of Corinth from the Acropolis, Greece, 1887. Artist: W Miller
The town and isthmus of Corinth from the Acropolis, Greece, 1887

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