Romeo and Juliet in Friar Lawrence's cell [graphic]

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Title: Romeo and Juliet in Friar Lawrence's cell [graphic]
Creator: Vandenbergh, Ignatius Joseph, 1752-1824, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Text below title: From the original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York.
Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Romeo. Ah Juliet, if the measure of thy joy be heap'd like mine, & that skill be more to blazon it ...
"Vide Romeo & Juliet, Act 2, Sc. 6."
One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 41.7 x 49 cm, on sheet 50 x 60 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
England > London > 1794

Access: Public
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