print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 1857,1114.9-25
- Title
- Object: Songs of Shakespeare
- Description
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"Songs of Shakespeare, Illustrated by the Etching Club [...] Presented to the Subscribers of the Royal Polytechnic Union" (London) 1843; a portfolio containing 9 plates with etched vignettes by different printmakers accompanying lines of Shakespeare (see curator's comment). With an engraved title sheet in original title wrappers.
Etchings, printed from steel plates on chine collé
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 422 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 291 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The subjects of the plates are as follows:
-- "My Lady Sweet, Arise", Cymbeline, Act 2, Scene 3
-- Ariel's Song, Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
-- Autolycus' Song, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 2 & 3
-- "Where the bee sucks!" Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1
-- Drinking Song, Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
-- "Under the Greenwood Tree", As You Like It, act 2, Scene 5
-- The Song of Poor Barbara, Othello, Act 4, Scene 3
-- The Forester's Song, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2
-- Youth and Age, The Passionate Pilgrim
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Songs of Shakespeare
- Acquisition date
- 1857
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1857,1114.9-25
