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Anne Page, Slender and Shallow (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

Etching and engraving, The American edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

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The American edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer 1942

Peter Simon (Engraver) After Robert Smirke (Artist) Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell (Publisher) Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner (Publisher) William Shakespeare (Subject)

Prints Shakespeare Men Women

first published 1792; reissued 1852, 1792, 1852

Title: Anne Page, Slender and Shallow (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

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Etching and engraving, The American edition of Boydell's Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.

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A horizontal, oval study of two women, half length, in fancy dress in a landscape setting. The woman on the left, presumably Mrs Gwynne, looks at her sister, who is facing outward....