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Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784, Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare, ca. 1777
- Title:
Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
- Date:
- ca. 1777
- Medium:
- Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm), Plate: 9 7/16 x 11 5/16 inches (23.9 x 28.8 cm), Image: 8 7/16 x 11 inches (21.5 x 27.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center right: "ILLUSTRATE"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Mortimer, del. ~"; lower center, within image: "A Fellow of Maudlin"; lower right: "L. Bates fect. ~"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.7.4
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- books | caricature | crowd | effigies | eyeglasses | hands | heads | literary theme | men | portrait | reading | satire | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
Montagu (née Robinson), Elizabeth (1718–1800), author and literary hostess - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19691
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