Antique 18c. Engraving Illustration for Shakespeare’s  Play Cymbeline.

Act I. Scene II.    

Plate 90.

Britain. The Garden of Cymbeline's Palace. 

CYMBELINE, POSTHUMUS, QUEEN IMOGEN &c.           

Posthumus.--   for my sake wear this;

                       It is a manacle of love; I'll place it

                       Upon this fairest prisoner.

[Putting a bracelet upon her arm. 

         Imogen.--      O the gods! When shall we see again?

Enter Cymbeline and Lords.

           Posthumus.--                 Alack, the king!     

Painted by WILLIAM HAMILTON (British, 1751–1801)

Etching and engraving by Thomas Burke (Irish, 1749 –1815)

Published Sept. 29 1799 by J.&.J. Boydell

Media: copper engraving

Size of image:  19  X 25  in. approx.

Size of sheet:  20.5 x 29 in. approx.

Condition: image is in good antique condition overall, small foxing marks.

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William Hamilton (1751–1801) was an English painter and illustrator.

Thomas Burke (1749 – 31 December 1815) was an Irish engraver and painter.

John Boydell (1719-1804) was a printseller and engraver.  Boydell is credited with encouraging the development of engraving in England with, among other things, these illustrations of scenes from Shakespeare.  In 1773, his nephew Josiah Boydell (1752-1817) became his business partner and later his successor, trading as J. & J. Boydell.

The artistic personnel involved in Boydell’s Shakespeare project included some of the foremost artists and engravers of late 18th century England.