FALSTAFF AND HIS FRIENDS

Original 1868 6 3/4 inch x 9 7/8 inch Etching and Engraving titled FALSTAFF AND HIS FRIENDS

Interior with guests sitting at a dinner table in front of a window, Falstaff sitting at the corner of the table turning back and looking at Mrs Ford and Mrs Page who stand in front of a fireplace on the left.

From “The merry Wives of Windsor” by William Shakespeare.

Engraved by William Greatbach (1802–1894). Portrait and figure engraver.

From the painting by Charles Robert Leslie (1794 – 1859). Anglo-American painter and writer on art. In his day he was well known for his paintings of literary themes, but he is now remembered mainly as a writer, above all for his Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843), which is regarded as one of the classics of artistic biography.

Published by Virtue & Co., Ltd.

Sheet size 9 3/4 inch x 13 5/8 inch

The engraving is in very good condition with light water stain mark visible at the upper right and lower right border.