Fluellen makeing Pistol eat the leek [graphic]

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Title: Fluellen makeing Pistol eat the leek [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fluellen making Pistol eat the leek
Creator: Meadows, Robert Mitchell, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd August 1, 1795, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet St.
Description: Title from caption below image.
Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy lowsy knave, at my desires, & my requests, & my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek ... Vide Hen. V, Act 5, Sc. 1.
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 42.1 x 49 cm, on sheet 50 x 59 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1795
Material: stipple engraving with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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