"Rosalind gives a trinket to Orlando, crowned with a laurel wreath, who has just defeated the wrestler, while Celia peeps from behind her friend, smling at the two, in a garden with a colonnaded pavilion behind where the king walks thoughtfully."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from later state in the British Museum., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark on top., Later state signed: "Painted by John Downman ; engraved by Willliam Leney.", and Imprint from later state: "Pub. June 4, 1800 by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London."
"Orlando striding forward with left arm raised and drawn sword, to face a lion which creeps from the undergrowth on the left towards Oliver who lies under a gnarled tree with a gaping hole in the trunk, a snake entwined around his arms and neck; after Raphael West."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state: [London] : Pubd. Decr. 1, 1798 by J. and J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, [1 December 1798]
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1790]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Duke Senior watches on the right as Hymen, bearing a flaming torch, brings Rosalind forward to take the astonished Orlando by the hand, in front of a large gnarled tree in the forest, while the other couples, including Audrey and Touchstone on the right, look on; late open-letter state with center foreground incomplete."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., "Shakspeare" etched below image., and Sheet trimmed on all sides.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
