Macbeth [graphic].

Description

Title: Macbeth [graphic].
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: Jany. 1, 1799.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by Willm Holland , No. 50 Oxford Strt
Abstract: Scene outside the castle where Hamlet and Banquo meet the three witches
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Nine lines of verse in two columns below title, Banquo's lines from Macbeth, Act I Scene 3: "What are these So withered and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth, And yet are on 't? -Live you? Or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34 x 43 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Aquatints England London 1799
Material: aquatint with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Brooms & brushes
Castles & palaces
Lightning
Soldiers
Scottish
Witches
Subjects: Brooms & brushes
Castles & palaces
Lightning
Soldiers > Scottish
Witches
England > 1799
England > London > 1799

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