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This depiction of Act 2, Scene 4, from Cymbeline was
engraved by C. W. Wilson after a painting by Richard Westall
(1765-1836).
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Opening May 19 in the Fairchild Gallery, Histories
and Tragedies from The Boydell Shakespeare Folio will
present twenty-five engravings, dating from 1791 to 1803,
that were adapted from paintings shown at the Shakespeare
Gallery in London in the late eighteenth century. John Boydell
(1719-1804) was a noted engraver, publisher, print-seller,
and even Lord Mayor of London, who established the Shakespeare
Gallery and sold to subscribers engravings of the paintings
shown there. His son, Josiah Boydell, published the collected
engravings after John Boydell's death. The exhibition will
include one of these volumes together with a selection of
the engravings that came to us as a gift of James E. Sale
in 1996. The exhibit may
be visited online. |
