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- Title:
Shakespeare's Winter Tale Act III Scene III
- Date:
- 1794
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on thick, rough, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 3/8 × 26 9/16 inches (54.3 × 67.5 cm), Plate: 19 7/8 × 25 inches (50.5 × 63.5 cm), Image: 17 1/2 × 23 3/8 inches (44.5 × 59.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower center: "SHAKSPEARE. | Winter's Tale. | ACT III.SCENE III. | Publish'd June 4 1794 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & Cheapside."; letterd, lower left: "Painted by Js. Wright. | Clo. I would you did but see how it chases, how it rages, | how it takes up the shore but that's not to the point: Oh' the most | pitious cry of the poor souls sometimes to see'em and not to see'em: | now the shop boring the moon with her main-mast; and anon | swallow'd with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead | And then for the land service.--To see how the bear tore out."; lettered, lower right: "Engrav'd by S. Middiman. | his shoulder-bone; how he cry'd to me for help, and said, his name | was Antigonus, a nobleman;--but to make an end of the ship | to see how the sea flap-dragon'd it;---but first how the poor souls | roar'd and the sea mock'd them;--and how the poor gentleman | roar'd, and the bear mock'd him, both roaring louder than | the sea, or weather."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.331
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42143
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