The Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare
1849
Author, English, 1564 - 1616
Illuminator, American, 1814/15 - 1852
Printer, American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1881
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with twenty-five chromolithographs
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
closed: 26 × 21 × 2.5 cm (10 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 1 in.)
open: 26 × 43 cm (10 1/4 × 16 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.44.119
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William and Abigail Gerdts, New York; gift to NGA, 2018
Associated Names
Inscriptions
"With Best Wishes Mrs A H Fletcher"; "Alfred Hewlett Fletcher, May 24th 1935"