Theatrical scene from Henry IV, Part 2, Act iii, scene 2. Justice Shallow and Justice Silence present to Falstaff the recruits they have round up from the countryside. The rotund Falstaff sits at a table covered with documents and points at one of the recruits while widely grinning
Description:
Title from W.N. Gardiner's published engraving after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene from Henry IV, Part 2, Act iii, scene 2. Justice Shallow and Justice Silence present to Falstaff the recruits they have round up from the countryside. The rotund Falstaff sits at a table covered with documents and points at one of the recruits while widely grinning
Description:
Title from W.N. Gardiner's published engraving after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) and Theatrical productions
Theatrical scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2, Act V, Scene 5. Henry stands at the center of the scene delivering his public rebuke of Falstaff after Falstaff and his companions (Shallow, Pistol, and Bardolph) approach the King immediately following his coronation
Description:
Title from Shenner etching after this drawing., Date supplied by cataloger., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413
Subject (Topic):
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character), Theatrical productions, and British
Title, printmaker, artist, and publication information from later state in The Lewis Walpole Library, call no.: Bunbury 793.04.30.01.2++., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper and lower edges., Early state of 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., and Manuscript notes giving artist and printmaker names, as well as partial title and publication information, added in pencil below image.
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs while others show drafts of other sketches. The set contains only the red suits, cards numbered from one to ten in each, although some numbers are missing and there are multiples of some numbers. Illustrations are also duplicated while others appear not to have been finished. There are no cards with clubs and spades. A number of the cards center on Shakespearean themes, social history, and street scenes (such as courtroom drama, musicians performing, a man in the stocks and, in a few, card playing itself). Some of the scenes depicted on these cards show more ribald, drawing from Macbeth’s Weird Sisters, Twelfth Night, King John, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; several are annotated on the reverse with lines from the plays. Falstaff is featured on several cards. Many of the cards reflect the mores of the period and the contrast between ruling passions and rules of conduct. In one, two men cast judgment upon a pregnant woman; it is annotated on the reverse with a dialogue between a Constable and a Judge. In "Village School" a schoolteacher manages to simultaneously hold a book and pinch a child's ear (nine of hearts). Other subjects include a game of chess (five of diamonds); drinking and smoking in a pub (seven of diamonds); and "Bunbury’s Country Club" (six of diamonds) in which the artist has kept elements from the print (published circa 1788). On the ten of diamonds the artist depicts a game of whist (annotated on the reverse "Can you one?").
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Some cards annotated and numbered on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs
