Falstaff playing the Prince, the Prince playing the King [graphic]

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Title: Falstaff playing the Prince, the Prince playing the King [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Contributor: Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [21 March 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 21, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Text above title: (At the Boar's-head Eastcheap).
Fourteen lines of dialogue below image, seven on either side of title: Fal. But to say I know more harm in him than in myself were to say more than I know ... Vide 1 part Henry 4, Act 2, Sc. 4.
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 51 x 60 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: stipple engraving and etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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