print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.2530
- Description
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Falstaff and the others of his company, including Bardolph and Shallow, kneeling before the newly coronated Henry V, who rebukes them and refuses to recognize Falstaff, his train held by pages and surrounded by courtiers, the Lord Chief Justice at his side, cheering crowds on every side and Westminster Abbey behind; illustration to Brough's "The Life of Sir John Falstaff" (1857);
Etching
- Production date
- 1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 176 millimetres
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Width: 254 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The scene is Act V, Scene V:
"I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,
So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;
But, being awaked, I do despise my dream."
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Life of Sir John Falstaff
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Associated Title: Henry IV Part II
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.2530