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A collection of prints : from pictures painted for the purpose of illustrating the dramatic works of Shakspeare / by the artists of Great-Britain.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection Portfolio PR2883 .C64 1803 copy 2 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Illustrations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictures.
- Penn Provenance:
- Paget, George (bookplate) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 85 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Published by John and Josiah Boydell : Printed by W. Bulmer, 1803.
- Notes:
- Vol. I contains frontispiece (full length portrait of George III, by Sir W. Beechey) and XLVI plates. XL to XLVI being Smirke's Seven ages; vol. II consists of frontispiece (portrait of Queen Charlotte, also by Beechey) and L plates, the last three "not engraved from the large pictures, but may be added to vol. II". These three are: Romney's "Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy", Westall's "Imogen in boy's clothes", and Josiah Boydell's "Desdemona asleep". Counting the title vignettes, 100 designs in all.
- Of the artists, Smirke, Fuseli, and Northcote contributed the largest number of plates; the others, including Reynolds, Opie, and Stothard, are represented by from one to five plates each; engraved by R. Thew, T. Ryder, P. Simon and others.
- Title vignettes (of Mrs. Damer's basso relievos).
- Sometimes confused with "Boydell's graphic illustrations ... of Shakspeare", 1804? a separate issue of the (smaller) plates prepared for their edition of Shakespeare, 1802, which also consists of 100 plates, most of them quite different from these large plates.
- Dedication and preface by Josiah Boydell dated March 25, 1805; the plates are dated 1790-1804.
- Local Notes:
- Copy 2 in one volume. Work was unbound, then rebound, with 2 extra plates added in front (one by James Gillray).
- OCLC:
- 2314817
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