Antique Master Print-SHAKESPEARE-WINTER’S TALE-BEAR-STORM-Middiman-Wright-1794

Subject: Antique print, titled: ‘Shakspeare. Winter’s Tale. Act III, scene III’, From a Shakespeare play: the bear scene. A man is chased by a bear in a coastal setting and storm.

Condition: Good, given age. Vertical crease near middle. Small tear in bottom margin, remargined using contemporary paper backed with acid free archival tape. Several creases in left margin and part of the print and top of the print. A few little holes in bottom of print and margin. Soiling. Nice dark impression. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 66 x 52.7 cm. The image size is ca. 63.2 x 49.8 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 26 x 20.7 inch. The image size is ca. 24.9 x 19.6 inch.

Part Number: 44542

Location: PCO-P5-39 / Expo-177

Description: In 1786, the printseller John Boydell (1719-1804) ’embarked upon the most important enterprise of his life, viz. the publication, by subscription, of a series of prints illustrative of [the works of] Shakespeare. This print was published in 1794..

Artists and Engravers: Made by S. Middiman after J. Wright. Samuel Middiman (1750-1831) was an English engraves who excelled in landscapes. Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as ‘the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution’.