Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1791]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man laying the seeming dead Juliet out on a bed, as the friar gestures to heaven, trying to comfort her mother, who approaches clasping her hands together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Shakspeare' etched above title., and Also inscribed with ten lines of dialogue on either side of title: "Fr. Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not ... Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1791, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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
Probable book illustration, within ornamental frame, of a man declaiming from a raised platform before an audience composed chiefly of men in the foreground and of women in the upper gallery, the setting illuminated by candles on the table before the speaker, and by a chandelier
Alternative Title:
School of Shakespeare
Description:
Title from item. and Date inferred from costume.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Dramatic productions, Acting, Actors, Audiences, and Stages (Platforms)
"Fabelliedchen. Es sah' ein Knab' ein Rösslein stehn ...", attributed to Goethe: p. 57., "LvTruchsess, Bundorph, 1774." written on front end-paper; a few ms. notes, apparently by the same hand., According to [Truchsesee's?] ms. note on p.139, Goethe was the translator of Frisi's Versuch über die gothische Baukunst., and I. Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker [by Herder] -- II. Shakespear [by Herder]. Nachschrift [zu I.] -- III. Von deutscher Baukunst [by Geothe] -- IV. Versuch über die gothische Baukunst. Livorno, 1776. Aus dem Italienischen dees Frisi. -- V. Deutsche Geschichte [by Möser].
Publisher:
Bey Bode.
Subject (Name):
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803, Ossian, and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
