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Nature listening to Shakespeare

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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