Dr Johnson in his travelling dress, as described in Boswell's Tour, ' c1773, (1786). The famous English lexicographer wearing tricorne hat, frock coat, waistcoat, breeches and boots, while on a walking tour of the Scottish Hebrides with his biographer James Boswell. Boswell published his account in Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century. With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston (pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds), (London, 1905). Artist: Thomas Trotter |