Caricature, A Chop-House (BM J,6.66 1), public domain cartoon image

No. 11 of a series. The interior of a chop-house. At a small square table, a fat elderly man (right) with a bushy wig sits facing a younger man. The older man is identified in a contemporary hand as 'Dr Johnson', who is much caricatured. His vis-à-vis is evidently Boswell (cf. a profile etched by S. Lysons). Johnson is intent on his plate; Boswell's elbows rest on the table, holding his knife and fork vertically erect he looks at Johnson, a cutlet-bone (?) protrudes from his mouth. He wears a three-cornered hat and spurred boots. Johnson's hat is supported on his massive stick, which is propped up beside him. Two dogs look expectantly at the table. A waiter (right) with a napkin under his arm is bringing in a dish. On the left is a small round table, at which sits a man who is not yet served. He is reading a newspaper with a scowl of concentration. Behind him a man in back-view stands looking at himself in an oval wall-mirror. Behind the waiter (right) is a tall screen of several leaves. 15 October 1781
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