Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Caption title. and Index to 100 plates published by Boydell, mostly illustrating Shakespeare's plays. The first four plates include: Plate I. Frontispiece. Shakspeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy. Plate II. Portrait of Alderman John Boydell. Plate III. The monument of Shakspeare. Plate IV. The alto relievo, in front of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with possible loss of imprint., Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiv, p. 22., Title continues: ... My dear feller, I've eat so much beef lately I'm ashamed to look a bullock in the face., and Title from lines of dialogue below image.
Marie de Médici and Louis XIII and Marie de Médicis and Louis XIII
Description:
1842, May 14, Day 18, Lot 110 bt Earl of Derby, £5.5.0; 1954 July 2, Christie's, Derby Sale, Lot 207 to Agnew & Sons for W.S. Lewis September 1954. The lot of six drawings also included a Flemish drawing of a Female Saint worshipping a crucifix., Cited in the 1842 sale text: Six curious pictures, in water colours, of Mary de Medici and Louis XIII, and five Great Duchesses of Tuscany, copied from a chamber at the Pazzio Imperiale, near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very clothes they wore, placed on the hangings, with the faces painted on satin., One from a group of six portraits cited in the 1774 Strawberry Hill catalogue: Six curious pictures in water-colours of Mary de Medici and Louis 13th. and five great duchesses of Tuscany; copied from a chamber at Poggio Imperiale near Florence, where the originals are dressed in the very cloaths [sic] they wore, pasted on the hangings, with the faces painted on sattin [sic]., and Title from manuscript text on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.
Subject (Topic):
Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Walpole Horace, 1717-1797