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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1868,0822.6120
Title
Object:
The genius of Shakespeare corrected by revelation
Description
Portrait after Burney, 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 [...] 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; St Peter standing on a lower plinth on the left, holding a scroll and pointing at his gospel (2, 3:13) : "Thy shall pass [...] righteousness"; illustration to an unidentified book. Engraving with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Thomas Rothwell
After:
Pieter Scheemaeckers
(sculpture)
After:
Edward Francis Burney
(design)
School/style
British
Production date
1775-1807
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
etching
Dimensions
Height:
246 millimetres
Width:
200 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(189)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
sculpture
Associated names
Portrait of:
William Shakespeare
Representation of:
St Peter
Associated with:
William Cowper
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Felix Slade
(L.2291)
Acquisition date
1868
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0822.6120