Social Political & Satirical

60x68 cm

SHAKSPEARE
Painted by R. Smirke | Aquafortis by R. Thew.
Publish'd Sep.r 12.1792 by J. & J Boydell, Cheapside. & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall.

Folio stipple engraving by Robert Thew (1758-1802) after a painting by Robert Smirke (1752/53-1845) showing Christopher Sly in the bedchamber from Scene II in The Taming of the Shrew. 

Published in Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakspeare...John & Josiah Boydell, London 1796.

Poor condition with wear, creaes and nicks to paper edges and overall.