print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.5855
- Title
- Object: Dr Caius discovering Simple in his closet
- Description
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An angry man stares at a terrified man with two women in the background; in an oval after Smirke; plate 2 of 4 for the 'Merry Wives of Windsor' from Charles Taylor's 'Picturesque Beauties of Shakspeare' of 1783-7. 1784
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 234 millimetres
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Width: 182 millimetres (platemark)
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- Curator's comments
- 1868,0822.5842 to 5881 is a series of 40 plates which were published under the title 'The Picturesque Beauties of Shakspeare, being a selection of scenes, from the works of that ... author' by Charles and then Isaac Taylor between 1783 and 1787. They were engraved under the direction of Charles Taylor (and his successors) from drawings by Robert Smirke and Thomas Stothard, and were not published with any associated text.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Merry Wives of Windsor
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.5855