Falstaff 's escape [graphic]

Description

Title: Falstaff 's escape [graphic]
Creator: Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: Novr. 30th, 1792.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
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 Merry wives of Windsor, Act 4, Sc. 2."
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.
A small ink and wash drawing of a face with the ms. notation "noctes dramaticae" on a separate sheet (27 x 71 mm) pasted below plate mark.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 43.2 x 50.9 cm, on sheet 49 x 57 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
England > London > 1792
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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