Memorial statue of Samuel Johnson
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Memorial statue of Samuel Johnson
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Published 2018-09-11T12:11:30+00:00
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This memorial statue depicts Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, who was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican and a generous philanthropist. Politically, he was a committed Tory. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Johnson as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, described by Walter Jackson Bate as "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature"
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| Date published | 11/09/2018 |
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| Title | Memorial statue of Samuel Johnson |
| Date | 1910 |
| Accession | Public access at St Clement Dane's Church yard |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | The gift and handiwork of Percy Fitzgerald, FSA and erected by the Revd. S. Pennington, MA, Rector of St. Clement Danes, 1910. |
| Record | https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/johnson-statue |
| Artist | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald |
| Place | London |
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