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Print made by Cornelis Apostool, 1762–1844, Dutch, Here Nature List'ning Stood, 1795
- Title:
- Here Nature List'ning Stood
- Additional Title(s):
- Frontispiece to Samuel Ireland's "Warwickshire Avon"
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon
- Date:
- 1795
- Materials & Techniques:
- Aquatint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.8 × 15.1 cm), Image: 7 3/8 × 5 1/8 inches (18.7 × 13 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, within image, upper right: "Warwickshire Avon."; lower left: "Burney delt."; lower center: "Here NATURE list'ning stood, whilst Shakespear play'd | And wonder'd at the Work herself had made! | London Pub. for Saml. Ireland Feby. 1st. 1795."; lower right: "C. Apostool sculpt. | Churchill."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.98
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | breeches | church | comedy | costume | curtain | doublet | drapery | fish | frontispiece (illustration) | literary theme | lyre | man | masks | moustache | nets | nudes | personification | river | riverbanks | scroll (information artifact) | shore (landform) | steeple | swan | togas | tragedy | trees | women
- Associated Places:
- Avon | England | Europe | United Kingdom | Warwickshire
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25341
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