Shakespeare Gallery folio, "King Henry the Eighth, Act V, Scene IV". As etched by J. Collier after the painting by Rev. Will Peters.

 

J. & J. Boydell Publishers

 

1796  

engraving 

19 5/8 x 25" platemark 

engraved, lower right 

not stated; this image most likely from first edition 

engraved: title and date of publication, pblshr's name and address, excerpt from play, both painter and etcher's names beneath image. 

 

heavy antique-white wove 

published 

John Boydell: J. & J., Publishers 

16616 

$400.00 

THE BOYDELL SHAKESPEARE FOLIO included 167 engravings, dating from 1791 to 1803, that were adapted from paintings shown at the Shakespeare Gallery in London in the late eighteenth century. John Boydell (1719 - 1804) was a noted engraver, publisher, print-seller, and even Lord Mayor of London, who established the Shakespeare Gallery and sold to subscribers engravings of the paintings shown there. His nephew, Josiah Boydell, published the collected engravings after John Boydell's death.