Hamlet [graphic].

Description

Title: Hamlet [graphic].
Creator: Boyne, John, approximately 1750-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Boyne & Walker publisher.
Published / Created: [1787?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Boyne & Walker, Turnstile, Holborn
Abstract: Shown before the gate of a castle, Hamlet is supported by two men as the ghost of his father, dressed in armour the knees of which are etched with the masks of Comedy and Tragedy, appears before him
Description: Title etched below image.
Two lines from Shakespeare Hamlet quoted below title: "Still I am called .. unhand me gentlemens [sic]. By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me".
Date based on publisher's address. See Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Pro patria.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 262 x 292 mm, on sheet 275 x 310 mm
Language: English

Genre: Parodies, imitations, etc
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic): Armor
Gates
Ghosts
Masks
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Armor
Gates
Ghosts
Masks
England > 1787
England > London > 1787

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