Happy Birthday Samuel Johnson! This Sir Joshua Reynoldspainting from our Donald and Mary Hyde Collec
Happy Birthday Samuel Johnson! This Sir Joshua Reynoldspainting from our Donald and Mary Hyde Collection is known (perhaps apocryphally)as “The Infant Johnson”. Fun fact: Johnson was bornon September 7, 1709, but after England adopted the Gregorian calendar andskipped forward 11 days in September 1752, Johnson celebrated his birthday onthe 18th.*2003JM-4Houghton Library, Harvard University -- source link
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