Richard Plantagenet and the Earl of Somerset stand beside a rose-bush under a large tree, with Suffolk, Warwick, Vernon and another lawyer, each urging them to show their support for whichever party they believe has told the truth, to pick a rose, white for Plantagenet, red for Somerset
Alternative Title:
First part of King Henry the sixth. Act II. Scene IV
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Lettered below the image with title: "Shakspeare. First part of King Henry 6th. Act II. Scene IV.", with nine lines of quotation in English: 'Plant. Since you are tongue ty'd, & so loth to speak [...] From of this briar pluck a white rose with me. / Som. Let him that is no coward, nor no flatterer [...] Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.'
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1795 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"Richard Plantagenet and the Earl of Somerset stand beside a rose-bush under a large tree, with Suffolk, Warwick, Vernon and another lawyer, each urging them to show their support for whichever party they believe has told the truth, to pick a rose, white for Plantagenet, red for Somerset. Trial proof with open figures."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
First part of King Henry the sixth. Act II. Scene IV
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and 'Shakspeare' in open letters below imprint.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 24, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 September 1797]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 29
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Poins and Hal, disguised, fall on Falstaff and company in a thick woodland with a large, broken gnarled tree on the left; they tie them up and rob them of the spoils they have just taken from travellers that passed that way earlier.'--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., 'Shakspeare' above title., and Also lettered with a quotation of seven lines on either side of title: "Fal. Come, my masters, let us share ... than in a wild duck. / P. Hen. Your money! / Poins. Villains! [rushing out upon them.''
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 29, 1797, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
A design for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing a small statue on a pedestal surrounded by piles of books (one with a pen and ink well on top) and a heraldric shield with helmet mounted at top and a garland draped on either side and through the design; acanthus leaves on scroll at the base
Alternative Title:
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount., Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]., Below the design a note in the artist's hand: The books to be letter'd. Phalaris! Free thinkers! Boyle, lectures! Horace [illegible] Terence! Milton! Manilius! Ep. Ad. Millium's sermons!, Portion of a watermark on lower left corner., and Formerly mounted at the lower half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65. and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
A design for the Strawberry Hill Press edition of Lucan's Pharsalia showing the head of Medusa with swords and spears entertwined, cross-crossed between the snakes that make up her hair. Above her head is a helmet with plumes. On the four corners of the design are the observe and reverse of coins showing Caesar, Anthony, Brutus, and Pompey. In the background is Strawberry Hill. With notes about the design in the artist's hand
Alternative Title:
Fleurons for Dr. Bentley's Lucan printed at Strawberry Hill 1760
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's ms. note in ink on mount., Date and attribution based on publication: M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia. [Twickenham] : Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLX [1760]., and Formerly mounted at the top half of leaf 13 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [approximately 1760].
Subject (Name):
Lucan, 39-65. and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)