As you like it [graphic]

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Title: As you like it [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 December 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published December 20th, 1788, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
Abstract: "In a wood, Silvius sitting on a rock at left takes the hand of Phebe as she leaves to left, at right Rosalind, Celia and Corin approach; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Lines from the play etched below image, in lower left margin: Silvius. O Dear Phebe, if ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy ...
Dedication etched below image, in lower right margin: To Mrs. Jordan, in gratitude for the pleasure receiv'd from her inimitable performance of Rosalind, this scene from the comedy As you like it, is dedicated by her obedient humble servant, Henry Bunbury.
Mounted on page 69 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41.2 x 55 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 69. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1788
Etchings England London 1788
Engravings England London 1788
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic): Forests
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Illustrations
Forests
Staffs (Sticks)
England > London > 1788
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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