print;
title-page;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0713.698-699
- Title
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Object: Ay, every inch a king
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Object: The Plays of William Shakspeare In Eight Volumes
- Description
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Title-page and frontispiece, printed from a single plate.
frontispiece to left: King Lear sitting in the wilderness holding a stick and looking up to right, while Kent kneels, holding his sovereign's hand to his cheek and Edgar sits with clasped hands behind them
titlepage to right: Ophelia sitting on a tree bough which hangs over a river, reaching out to right to hang a garland of flowers.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1800-1830 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 148 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1868,0822.5768 for scratched-letter state of frontispiece and 1868,0822.5767 for proof before letters of title-page.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Collected Plays
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Associated Title: King Lear
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Associated Title: Hamlet
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0713.698-699