As You Like It, Act IV, Scene III, 1798

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series Title

Shakespeare Gallery

Medium

hand-colored etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 49.6 × 62.9 cm (19 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)

sheet: 52.3 × 66.4 cm (20 9/16 × 26 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler

Accession Number

2017.53.53

Artists / Makers

William Charles Wilson (artist) British, active 1750 - 1794

Raphael Lamar West (artist after) British, 1769 - 1850

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Raphael West. / Oli, Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age... / ...Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach'd; lower center in plate: SHAKSPEARE. / As you like it / ACT IV. SCENE III. / A forest. Orlando and Oliver / Pubd. Decr. 1. 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.; lower right in plate: The opening of his mouth: but suddenly ... / ...When that the sleeping man should stir.

Provenance

(Weschler's Auctions, Washington, D.C., date unknown); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas
Weschler and Son, Adam A.