print
- Museum number
- J,29.32
- Title
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Object: Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, Scene I
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Series: Shakespeare Gallery (small series)
- Description
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Mrs Page reading a love-letter from Falstaff in a garden beside a low wall, with Mrs Ford standing next to her, who has arrived to ask her advice on an identical love-letter sent to her, and they decide to take revenge on him; after Peters; published state. 1800
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 421 millimetres
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Width: 338 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Dd,6.14 for earlier large engraving by Robert Thew after the painting for Boydell.
For proofs, see 1868,0822.3416-7.
Boydell's Shakespeare, 1802, Vol. 1, p. 22.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor (II.i)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on J,29.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,29.32
