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Tuesday 16 February 2016

The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery

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                                                                  The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.


                                  This scene depicts Shakespeare's King Henry the Sixth.


                Third Part of King Henry the Sixth, Act 1. Scene III, A Field of Battle betwixt

                   Sandal Castle and Wakefield. Rutland and his Tutor, Clifford and Soldiers:

             Engraved by Charles Playter and Thomas Ryder, after a painting by James Northcote.

                                  This original  engraving is printed upon early wove paper,

                                          published by John Boydell in London in 1796.


                                                                       









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