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Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream- Etching-J.P. Simon After J.H. Fussli-1796
By Johann Heinrich Fussli (After)
Located in Roma, IT
is displayed at Tate Britain in London. It was commissioned for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
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1790s Romantic Figurative Prints

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Etching

Large Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Hunting Dog Highland Landscape & Figures
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
the British Institution which was established as a rival to the Royal Academy, at Boydell
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

18th Century English School Portrait of a young girl, half length
Located in Harkstead, GB
, notably for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Earl Sandwich Refusing to Leave His Ship": An 18th Century Etching/Engraving
By Robert Smirke
Located in Alamo, CA
Nights, Adventures of Hunchback, Don Quixote, as well as John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and for
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1790s Landscape Prints

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Engraving, Etching

Portrait of a young gentleman, seated beside a tree
By John Downman
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
from As You Like It (untraced) to John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and in 1782 exhibited at the Royal
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Family. He also painted five Shakespearean works for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and six for the
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Fine Pair Of Antique English Chamberlains Worcester Round Dishes Circa 1810
By Chamberlains Worcester
Located in New Orleans, LA
published by John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall. Decoration with copies of oil paintings gave
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Tableware

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Porcelain

Cupid Sleeping - 18th Century British watercolour by Richard Westall RA
By Richard Westall
Located in London, GB
style. He contributing to both Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli’s Milton Gallery and was also a
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1790s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Portrait of a Lady with a Blue Bow - British 18thC art Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
Family. He also painted five Shakespearean works for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and six for the
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Antique Regency Chamberlains Worcester Plate Centerpiece National Gallery London
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Dublin, Ireland
published by John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall. Decoration with copies of oil paintings gave
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Antique 19th Century English Regency Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

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Ormolu

19th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Muse
Located in London, GB
subjects for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery; and until his death, his practice alternated between
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Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Early 18th Century Oil After Francis Wheatley, The Taming of The Shrew
Located in London, GB
to and encouraged the assertion of Shakespeare as Britain’s foremost national playwright. Through the
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Early 1800s Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Richard Reynolds, Society of Friends: 19th C. Engraved Portrait by Wm. Sharp
By William Sharp
Located in Alamo, CA
. Hobday worked for several prominent publishers, including John Boydell and Rudolph Ackermann. He was also
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Early 19th Century Portrait Prints

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Engraving

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21st Century and Contemporary Books

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Foil

19th Century French Oil Huntsman in Wooded Landscape on Horseback framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Early 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

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Located in Stoke, Hampshire
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18th Century English Fox Hunting Oil Painting Wood Panel Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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20th Century English Scientific Instruments

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Stone, Iron

Alone - Original Lithograph and Offset by George Grosz - 1923
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Offset, Lithograph

19th Century landscape oil painting of horses near a barn with figures & a dog
By Thomas Blinks
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Very Large Antique Italian Signed Oil Painting - The Hunting Party
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Marcel Falcinelli (1900 - 1980), European and signed Title: A Hunting Scene Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Size: canvas : 38 x 35.5 inches Provenance: private ...
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English 19th century portrait of two seated King Charles Cavalier Spaniels dogs
By James Cassie
Located in Woodbury, CT
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1850s Victorian Animal Paintings

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'Descente de Croix' (Descent from the Cross) — 1920s French Cubism
By Albert Gleizes
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Albert Gleizes, 'Descente de Croix', color pochoir, 1928, edition c. 50. Signed and dated in pencil. A fine, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy, cream wove paper; the ...
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1920s Cubist Abstract Prints

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Stencil

19th Century landscape oil painting of swans on a river
By Alfred Augustus Glendening Senior
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Alfred Augustus Glendening Snr British, (1840-1921) Swans on the River Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)96 Image size: 17.75 inches x 30.75 inches Size including frame: 25 inches x...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Signed Victorian Oil Painting Terrier Dogs by Rabbit Hole Coastal Sand Dunes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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"Canoe of the Sandwich Islands" (Hawaii), Engraving of Captain Cook's 3rd Voyage
By John Webber
Located in Alamo, CA
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1780s Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Early 19th Century Scottish Oil Painting Figures in Dramatic Highlands Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"The Cougar", an Original 19th C. Audubon Hand Colored Quadruped Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original John James Audubon hand-colored royal octavo lithograph entitled "The Cougar, Male", No. 20, Plate XCVI, 96 from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America". It was d...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Animal Prints

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Lithograph

The Sea At Twilight, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
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Early 19th Century Landscape Paintings

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Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V Scene V
By Rob Smirke
Located in New York, NY
, John Boydell, an engraver and publisher, established the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery in London. The
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1790s Romantic Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

LYSANDER WITH HELENA AND HERMIA, FROM A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM - Henry Fuseli
By Henry Fuseli
Located in Neung-sur-beuvron, FR
Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery, to which he was the main contributor. Other paintings taken from A Midsummer
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Boy With The Red Cap
Located in Heathfield, GB
subjects for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery; and until his death, his practice alternated between
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Late 18th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Shakespeare Print "Cymbeline" Act III, Scene IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
Boydell (1791-1801) London. Painted by J. Hoppner R.A.; engraved by R. Thaw, Engraver to H.R.H. the
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Antique 19th Century Prints

Shakespeare Print "Romeo and Juliet" Act V, Scene III
By F. Northcote and P. Simon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Boydell (1791-1801)London. Glazed and handsomely matted and framed en suite with three other prints we are
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Antique 19th Century Prints

Shakespeare Print "King Henry the Fourth" Act II Scene IV
By R. Thew, Rob Smirke
Located in San Francisco, CA
Shakspeare", print of copper engraving published by John Boydell (1791-1801) London. Painted by R. Smirke
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Antique 19th Century Prints

Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost
By Henry Fuseli
Located in New York, NY
-1825) commissioned by the London master publisher, John Boydell, for his Shakespeare Gallery and for
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1790s Romantic Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost
By Henry Fuseli
Located in New York, NY
-1825) commissioned by the London master publisher, John Boydell, for his Shakespeare Gallery and for
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1790s Romantic Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Shakspeare. Winter's Tale. Act III, scene III.
By Samuel Middiman
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
From a Shakespeare play: the bear scene. A man is chased by a bear in a coastal setting and storm
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1790s Landscape Prints

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Engraving

Portrait of David Garrick as Richard III (Act 5)
By Nathaniel Dane-Holland
Located in New Orleans, LA
Dixon (1720-1804), and this engraving was published by John Boydell in 1772. The National Theatre
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18th Century Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Gundogs flushing Pheasants in a meadow, oil painting on canvas, framed
By Robert Cleminson
Located in ludlow, GB
Royal Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL - HIGHLAND PONY & DOGS LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL HIGHLAND PONY & SPANIEL LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Monarch of the Glen, Huge Victorian Oil Painting Stag in the Highlands
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
works at the British Institution which was established as a rival to the Royal Academy, at Boydell
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Liber Veritatis
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has an example of this
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Early 19th Century Baroque Landscape Prints

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Engraving, Mezzotint

Setter Dogs Hunting in Scottish Highland Moors Antique British Oil Painting
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Institution which was established as a rival to the Royal Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL - HIGHLAND PONY & DOGS LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL - HIGHLAND SETTER DOGS LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique British Sporting Art Oil Painting Hunting Dogs Waiting for their Master
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
as a rival to the Royal Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL - HIGHLAND SETTER DOGS LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jane Shore
By Francesco Bartolozzi
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
plates to Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. He also drew sketches of his own in red chalk. Soon after
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Early 1800s Baroque Portrait Prints

Materials

Copper

Thomas Stothard, British (From Taming Of The Shrew by Shakespeare)
Located in Hallowell, ME
Depiction of Katherine in the Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare, oil on canvas, unsigned
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19th Century Realist Interior Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Miss Emma Lane, Attributed to J. Reynolds
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
, including those commissioned for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Infant Hercules (1788
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1770s Rococo Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of Two Boys with a Bird - British 18th century Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
Royal Academy, of which he became a full member in 1788. He painted five subjects for John Boydell
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Young Man Consulting Diagram - British 18thC portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
member in 1788. He painted five subjects for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery; and until his death, his
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Books, The Works of William Shakespeare, Antique Leather-Bound Collections
Located in New York, NY
Sixteen volumes. The Works of William Shakespeare. Published: Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons
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Late 20th Century Books

Books, The Works of William Shakespeare, Antique Leather-Bound Collections
Located in New York, NY
Sixteen volumes. The Works of William Shakespeare. Published: Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons
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Late 20th Century Books

'Book Sets' 3 Volumes, John Ireland, Hogarth Illustrated
Located in New York, NY
decorated gilt on covers & spine. Top edges gilt. With frontispiece. Published for the Shakespeare Gallery
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Antique 18th Century British Books

Materials

Leather

19th Century Pair of Oil Paintings of Gun Dogs by Robert Cleminson
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society of British
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Antique 1860s British Victorian Paintings

Set of Nine Prints of Shakespeare's Plays, England 1803
Located in Houston, TX
Boydell who originally offered the set at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, and No.90, Cheapside. The
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Antique 19th Century English Prints

Shakespeare, Tempest Act I Scene I
By George Romney
Located in New York, NY
, together with his uncle, John Boydell, an engraver and publisher, established the Boydell Shakespeare
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1790s Romantic Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

The Infant Shakspeare
By George Romney
Located in New York, NY
Boydell's monumental Shakespeare series. The heading, 'Shakspeare', is filled in with stippling. Printed on
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18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Set of Five Antique Engravings of Shakespeare's Plays, England, 1803
Located in Houston, TX
published by John and Josiah Boydell who originally offered the set at the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall
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Antique Early 1800s English Drawings

Materials

Glass, Paper, Wood

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