Boswell is represented with his sword by his side, notebook under his arm, and walking stick held behind his back.The face of Boswell is taken from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and his figure and costume from Langton’s sketch of...

James Boswell was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom...