print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1977,U.1401
- Description
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Jack Falstaff, a wooden foil in his hand, Skogan opposite him clutching his head in pain at Falstaff's blow, a crowd of onlookers, including jesters and guards, of the retinue of Thomas Mowbray observing, the gates of a castle beyond; sketches of Falstaff's head to the plate; illustration to Brough's "The Life of Sir John Falstaff" (1857);
Etching
- Production date
- 1857
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 254 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The scene is Act III, Scene II:
"The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break Skogan's head at the court-gate, when a' was a crack not thus high: and the very same day did I fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind Gray's Inn."
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: The Life of Sir John Falstaff
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Associated Title: Henry IV Part II
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1977,U.1401
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179