Boydell's Shakespeare Prints: 90 Engravings

By John Boydell and Josiah Boydell

This impressive collection of engravings illustrating the dramatic works of Shakespeare takes a new look at the long-neglected area of romantic early-19th-century art. Nearly 100 illustrations depict dramatic scenes from AMidsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear, and 26 other plays. A monumental effort begun in 1787, the engravings speak as passionately to the viewer today as they did more than 200 years ago.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Mar 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9780486149011

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Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, scene IV (p. 68) appears courtesy of

The George Peabody Library of The Johns Hopkins University.

Copyright

Copyright © 2004 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is a selection of 90 engraved plates from The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, edited by George Steevens, originally published in nine volumes and printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, G. and W. Nicol, London, in 1802.

DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boydell, John, 1719–1804.

Boydell’s Shakespeare prints / John and Josiah Boydell.

p. cm.—(Dover pictorial archive series)

"A selection of 90 engraved plates