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Object Type
print
Museum number
X,8.28
Title
Object:
As You Like It, Act IV
Description
Orlando battling against the lioness on the left, while his brother Oliver sleeps under a spreading oak tree, oblivious to the danger from which his brother preserves him, with a snake hastening away from Oliver into the bushes to right; in an oval; scratched open-letter state. 1787 Etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Samuel Middiman
Print made by:
Francesco Bartolozzi
After:
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
After:
George Barret (the elder)
After:
Sawrey Gilpin
Published by:
Samuel Middiman
School/style
British
Production date
1787
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
360 millimetres
Width:
383 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi
(1833.I)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Illustration to:
William Shakespeare
Associated titles
Associated Title:
As You Like It
(IV.iii)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with monogram and date 1789)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
X,8.28