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- Title:
The Birth of Shakespeare
- Date:
- 1782
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Angelica Kauffman pincs. | .....Shakespeare | Whom on the winding Avon's willowed banks | Fair Fancy found, and bore the Smiling Babe | To a close cavern: | London, Publish'd as the Act directs Feby. 1st. 1782."; lettered, lower right: "F. Bartolozzi sculp 1782 | Here as with honey gather'd from the rock, | She fed the little rattler, and with songs | Oft sooth'd his wondring ears, with deep delight | On her soft lap he sat, and caught the sounds. | The Enthusiast by Wharton Dodsley Vol.III. | Anthony Poggi | by A. Poggi, No.4, Orchard Street Portman Square."; lettered, lower center: "THE BIRTH OF SHAPESPEARE. | From a Picture by Angelica Kauffman in the possession of Lady Rushout. | To whome the Plate is dedicated by her Ladyship's obedient Servant"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.19828
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- 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:38249
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