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Object Type
Museum number: 1862,1213.135-172
Description: "Engravings from the Works of Henry Liverseege." (London, Hodgson, Boys and Graves and Manchester, Grundy and Goadsby) 1832-35; containing a frontispiece mezzotint portrait of Henry Liverseege, an illustrated title page and 35 mezzotint plates of genre subjects, portraits, and themes from literature (for example of Falstaff and Bardolph, Hamlet, Othello and Desdemona); includes a list of engravings describing the "Proprietor of the Picture" and the engraver, as well as a letterpress "Memoir of Henry Liverseege, by Charles Swain, Esq.", and two letterpress poems, "On the Death of Henry Liverseege." and "To Robert Southey, Esq. LL.D. Poet Laureate" (both dated 1835). Full leather dark green binding with gilt tooling to front and rear covers and turn-in, and gilt-edged leaves. Gold tooled spine with a gold embossed title, "Liverseege.". Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: James Bromley; Print made by: William Giller; Print made by: John P Quilley; Print made by: John Charles Bromley; Print made by: R P Barlow; Print made by: George Raphael Ward; Print made by: Samuel Cousins; After: Henry Liverseege; Published by: Hodgson, Boys & Graves; Published by: Grundy & Smith (Grundy and Goadsby)
School/style
Production date: 1832-1835 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England) (Hodgson, Boys and Graves. Paull Mall); Published in: Manchester (England) (Listed as Grundy and Goadsby on title page. Individual prints show J. C. Grundy)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 420 millimetres (approx. size of sheet); Width: 285 millimetres (approx. size of sheet)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Associated with: Friar Tuck; Associated with: Othello; Associated with: Desdemona; Associated with: Sir John Falstaff; Associated with: Don Quixote; Portrait of: Henry Liverseege; Associated with: Hudibras
Associated places: Associated with: London; Associated with: Manchester
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1862
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1862,1213.135-172

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