Shakespear's beautiful idea on the seven ages of man [graphic]

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Title: Shakespear's beautiful idea on the seven ages of man [graphic]
Alternative Title: Shakespeare's beautiful idea on the seven ages of man
Shakespeare's seven ages
Creator: Gear, J. C, printmaker
Contributor: Gear, J. C., publisher.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 5th 1792.
Publication Place: Gosport, Hampshire
Publisher: Published as the act directs, by J.C. Gear, music and drawing master, Gosport
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of second imprint.
Twenty eight lines in three columns of text under image titled Shakespeare's Seven Ages: All the world's a stage ...
Below last line of text additional imprint: Printed for S.W. Fores, Printseller and Publisher, No. 3 Piccad[illy].
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Infants -- Children -- Youth -- Aging -- Interiors: library -- Symbols: mask of Comedy -- Mask of Tragedy -- Justice holding scales.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 40 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Genre prints England 1792
Aquatints England Hampshire 1792
Engravings England Hampshire 1792
Etchings England Hampshire 1792
Material: etching, aquatint & stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic): Life cycle
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Portraits
Life cycle
England > 1792
England > Hampshire > 1792

Access: Public
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