print
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.5862
- Title
- Object: Olivia unveils herself to Viola
- Description
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A woman seated on a sofa removes her veil to the surprise of another woman dressed as a man; in an oval after Smirke; plate 1 of 4 for 'Twelfth Night' 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: Twelfth Night
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.5862