FLORIZEL AND PERDITA – “THE WINTER’S TALE”
£75.00
Original 1866 7 1/4 inch x 9 5/8 inch engraving titled FLORIZEL AND PERDITA – “THE WINTER’S TALE”
Interior of the shepherd’s cottage, where Perdita welcomes the disguised Polixenes and Camillo who sit to right and selects flowers to offer them from a basket provided by Dorcas, watched by Florizel who stands behind her to right.
From the picture in the Sheepshanks Gallery.
Engraving by Lumb Stocks (1812 – 1892).
After 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 in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.
Page size 12 7/8 inch x 9 3/8 inch
The engraving, on fairly thick paper, is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.
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