print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1913,0212.20
- Title
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Object: Shylock in the streets of Venice
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Series: Art Journal
- Description
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A man in the character of Shylock from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice', running along a street with a dagger held up in his right hand, followed by a group of children at right, and one boy overtaking him; a group of men standing in background at left, engaged in conversation, in front of a tower and a building with arched windows flanked by columns and ballustrated roof terrace; after Gilbert; proof before letters; c. 1864-1884.
Engraving and etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1864-1884 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 340 millimetres
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Width: 463 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression comes from a series of India paper proofs before letters in the BM (1913,0212.10 to 69) which were later published in the Art Journal; it remains to be determined in which issue this print was published in. Many of these were subsequently reprinted in James' Dafforne 'Modern Art: a Series of Line Engravings from the Works of Distinguished Painters of the English and Foreign Schools ... With Descriptive text by J. Dafforne'', London (Virtue & Co); this comprised 120 prints after paintings by contemporary masters issued in two series of 60 plates each (1886). 22 of these India proofs in the BM overlap with prints in the series 1923,1112.121 to 168, which were probably cut out from Dafforne's volume and sold to the BM as loose prints.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Merchant of Venice
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Associated Title: Art Journal
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Associated Title: Modern Art
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0212.20
