print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.5099
- Title
- Object: Gulielmus Shakespear
- Description
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Portrait after Scheemakers' memorial statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey; full length standing, leaning with right elbow on a pile of books, pointing with left hand to an excerpt of Prospero's lines from the Tempest 'The Cloud wrapp'd Towers ... Leave not a wreck behind' on a paper beneath them, ankles crossed, looking towards the viewer, the books on a plinth decorated with busts of kings, in a moulded architrave. 1742
Etching
- Production date
- 1742
- Dimensions
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Height: 388 millimetres
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Width: 242 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 Apr-Jun, Twickenham, Orleans House Gallery, Shakespeare
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.5099