Facius, Georg Sigmund, approximately 1750- printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1791]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 80
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man laying the seeming dead Juliet out on a bed, as the friar gestures to heaven, trying to comfort her mother, who approaches clasping her hands together."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Shakspeare' etched above title., and Also inscribed with ten lines of dialogue on either side of title: "Fr. Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not ... Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Publisher:
Published June 4th, 1791, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[4 June 1793]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 93
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"King Leontes, furious with the delusion that Mamilius is not his son but a bastard, pointing at the child with his left hand, orders Antigonus, who has defended Hermione's honour and saved the child from being thrown into the fire, to prove his loyalty to his King by kissing his sword and abandoning the child in the wilderness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 'Shakspeare' etched above title., Also lettered with seven lines of dialogue on either side of title: "Leo. It shall be possible, Swear by this sword ... Whom for this time, we pardon.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1793, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Simon, John Peter, -approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1790]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 20
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Duke Senior watches on the right as Hymen, bearing a flaming torch, brings Rosalind forward to take the astonished Orlando by the hand, in front of a large gnarled tree in the forest, while the other couples, including Audrey and Touchstone on the right, look on; late open-letter state with center foreground incomplete."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state., "Shakspeare" etched below image., and Sheet trimmed on all sides.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1, 1790 by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
"The two Antipholuses and the two Dromios come face to face on the steps of the priory, the Abbess Amelia rushes out to protest that Aegeon, kneeling bound at the foot of the steps, has been unjustly accused, and Duke Solinus, standing to left, gestures with incredulity at the two pairs of twins; after Rigaud; etched state"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from published state.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1794 by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside, & Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Cymbeline's palace in Britain: Standing behind a pillar, Posthumus ties a keepsake around Imogen's wrist as she looks over her shoulder fearfully at the king on the right as he angrily throws aside a curtain, catching them in the act
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker, and imprint from published state. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and left side.
Publisher:
John & Josiah Boydell
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, and Cunobelinus, King of the Britons, -43?
A set of playing cards, or transformation cards, drawn by an unidentified artist, showing caricatured figures; each vignette incorporates the formation of hearts or diamonds into the scene. Some of the cards are numbered or annotated on the backs while others show drafts of other sketches. The set contains only the red suits, cards numbered from one to ten in each, although some numbers are missing and there are multiples of some numbers. Illustrations are also duplicated while others appear not to have been finished. There are no cards with clubs and spades. A number of the cards center on Shakespearean themes, social history, and street scenes (such as courtroom drama, musicians performing, a man in the stocks and, in a few, card playing itself). Some of the scenes depicted on these cards show more ribald, drawing from Macbeth’s Weird Sisters, Twelfth Night, King John, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; several are annotated on the reverse with lines from the plays. Falstaff is featured on several cards. Many of the cards reflect the mores of the period and the contrast between ruling passions and rules of conduct. In one, two men cast judgment upon a pregnant woman; it is annotated on the reverse with a dialogue between a Constable and a Judge. In "Village School" a schoolteacher manages to simultaneously hold a book and pinch a child's ear (nine of hearts). Other subjects include a game of chess (five of diamonds); drinking and smoking in a pub (seven of diamonds); and "Bunbury’s Country Club" (six of diamonds) in which the artist has kept elements from the print (published circa 1788). On the ten of diamonds the artist depicts a game of whist (annotated on the reverse "Can you one?").
Description:
In English., Title devised by cataloger., Some cards annotated and numbered on the verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Subject (Topic):
Playing cards, Card games, and Social life and customs