print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.5860
- Title
- Object: The examination of Borachio and Conrade
- Description
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The two men with their hands bound stand by a table at which a scribe records the results of the interrogation conducted by two inquisitors; in an oval after Smirke; plate 3 of 4 for 'Much ado about Nothing' 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)
- $Inscriptions
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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: Much ado about Nothing
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.5860