Das Bild ist nach einem Kupferstich von F. Bartoluzzi, London, 1785
„Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.“
Dr. Johnson (nach Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1791)