Johnson, Samuel

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Basic data

  1. Dr. Johnson Alternative Names
  2. September 18, 1709 in Lichfield
  3. December 13, 1784 in London
  4. Schriftsteller, Dichter, Lexikograf
  5. Birmingham, London

Iconography

Portrait by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1772 (Source: Wikimedia)
Johnson's birthplace in Market Square, Lichfield (Source: Wikimedia)
Entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford (Source: Wikimedia)
Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, Johnson's wife (Source: Wikimedia)
Edial Hall School (Source: Wikimedia)
Title page of London second edition (Source: Wikimedia)
Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chesterfield. Coloured engraving by E.M. Ward. (Source: Wikimedia)
Johnson, by John Opie (Source: Wikimedia)
A literary party, 1781, of Johnson (second from left) and other members of "The Club". (Source: Wikimedia)
James Boswell at 25, by George Willison (Source: Wikimedia)
Johnson (1775) showing his intense concentration and the weakness of his eyes; he did not want to be depicted as "Blinking Sam." This unique portrait showing his nearsightedness is in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.[137] (Source: Wikimedia)
Hester Thrale and her daughter Queeney (Source: Wikimedia)
A caricature of Johnson by James Gillray mocking him for his literary criticism; he is shown doing penance for Apollo and the Muses with Mount Parnassus in the background. (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Samuel Johnson c.1770 (Source: Wikimedia)
Reynolds' 1769 portrait depicting Johnson's "odd gesticulations"[216] (Source: Wikimedia)
Statue of Dr Johnson erected in 1838 opposite the house where he was born at Lichfield's Market Square. There are also statues of him in London and Uttoxeter.[229] (Source: Wikimedia)
Bust of Johnson by Joseph Nollekens, 1777. (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Samuel Johnson, Friedrich Fleischmann - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Samuel Johnson, Friedrich Fleischmann - 1818/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Samuel Johnson, Johann Georg Sturm - 1757/1793 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Samuel Johnson, Charles Townley - 1786 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Samuel Johnson, Johann Christian Dieterich - 1784 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Samuel Johnson, Reynolds, Joshua -  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Samuel Johnson, Darton, William - 1822 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Samuel Johnson, John Fielding -  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Johnson, Samuel,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Johnson, Samuel,  (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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