Nature listening to Shakespeare
Maker
(artist)
1760-1848
(engraver)
1762-1844
(printer)
died 1800 (Life dates)
1760-1848
(engraver)
1762-1844
(printer)
died 1800 (Life dates)
Title
Nature listening to Shakespeare
Date of Production
1.2.1795
Medium
Stipple Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3699
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower left margin, printed: Burney del.t .
Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: C. Apostool sculp.t
Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: Here NATURE listening stood whilst Shakespeare play'd / And wonder'd at the Work herself had made! / Churchill / London Pub. for Sam.l Ireland Feb.y 1st 1795.
Inscription: Recto: upper right & within image, on a fishing net, printed: Warwickshire Avon.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre mount, handwritten in pen: E. F. BURNEY
Inscription: Recto: lower left mount, typed: Views on the Avon, Ireland, 1795 .
Stamp: Recto: upper right mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
Stamp: Recto: lower right mount, stamped: M
Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: C. Apostool sculp.t
Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: Here NATURE listening stood whilst Shakespeare play'd / And wonder'd at the Work herself had made! / Churchill / London Pub. for Sam.l Ireland Feb.y 1st 1795.
Inscription: Recto: upper right & within image, on a fishing net, printed: Warwickshire Avon.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre mount, handwritten in pen: E. F. BURNEY
Inscription: Recto: lower left mount, typed: Views on the Avon, Ireland, 1795 .
Stamp: Recto: upper right mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
Stamp: Recto: lower right mount, stamped: M
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