Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide, As you like it, Act 2, Sc. 3.", and 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.
Publisher:
Published June 1, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Scene from Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor, act 4, scene 2.
Alternative Title:
Falstaff's escape
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Inscribed by artist on verso: Merry Wives of Windsor / Act 4- Scene 2nd / Fal[staff. No, I'll come no more i'th basket / may I not go out to[o] soon / Mrs. Page. Alas, three of another Fr[ien]ds brother." [From dealer's description]., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Comedies
"Henry, Prince of Wales kneeling at the foot of Henry IV's bed, holding the crown, looking up at his father and begging pardon for having taken it up, explaining that he had thought him dead, not sleeping and had been berating the crown for the trouble it had caused."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image. and 'Shakspeare' above title.
Publisher:
Published April 23, 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Shakespeare's beautiful idea on the seven ages of man and Shakespeare's seven ages
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., and Temporary local subject terms: Infants -- Children -- Youth -- Aging -- Interiors: library -- Symbols: mask of Comedy -- Mask of Tragedy -- Justice holding scales.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by J.C. Gear, music and drawing master, Gosport
Title etched below image; title is a quotation from Shakespeare's Twelfth night., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 12th, 1803 by S.W. Fores, no. 50 Piccadilly
Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and the clown
Description:
Title from caption below image., Dedication etched below title: From an original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of York, to whom this plate is ... humbly dedicated by ... Thos. Macklin., "Vide Twelfth night, Act 2, Sc. 3.", and 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.
Publisher:
Publish'd Nov. 30, 1792, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
