[Samuel Johnson] [art original]

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[Samuel Johnson] [art original]

Subject: Standing figure, similar to full-size statue of Johnson by Fitzgerald outside St. Clement Danes Church in London.

1 sculpture : plaster with brown paint ; 61 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799091

Houghton Library

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Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington, 1834-1925

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Percy Wyly is a pseud. of Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. From the description of Percy Wyly letter : [London, England] : ms., [18--?]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 55691265 Irish sculptor and writer. From the description of Amuse the crowds : [London] : autograph manuscript signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270511762 Irish sculptor and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London]...