print
- Museum number
- Dd,6.44.+
- Title
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Object: Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V
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Series: Shakespeare Gallery
- Description
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A man laying the seeming dead Juliet out on a bed, as the friar gestures to heaven, trying to comfort her mother, who approaches clasping her hands together. 1788
Stipple etching
- Production date
- 1788
- Dimensions
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Height: 480 millimetres
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Width: 612 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Romeo and Juliet (IV:v)
- Acquisition date
- 1804
- Acquisition notes
- Dd,6 was a complete copy of the Boydell Shakespeare series, which was subsequently broken up. The 'Book of Donations 1756-1823' records on the 8 December 1804 the gift of a 'set of proof impressions of the large prints belonging to Messrs Boydell's edition of Shakespeare' from Mr Charles Dilly and Mr Alderman Boydell. This must be the volume Dd,6.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Dd,6.44.+