Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging, 1769

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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After the enormous success of 'Ramsgate Sands', exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854 (Royal Collection), Frith added scenes from modern life to his repertoire. This is a reduced replica of a picture shown at the Royal Academy in 1868. It illustrates a party on 16 October 1769 recorded in Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. The guests were Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Murphy, Bickerstaff, Thomas Davies, Dr Johnson and Boswell himself.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Before Dinner at Boswell's Lodging, 1769

Date

1868

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 41 x W 63 cm

Accession number

WA1937.107

Acquisition method

Presented by the grandchildren of J. Snowdon Henry, 1937

Work type

Painting

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