BRB - time to hang out with King Lear and Fyodor Karamazov until I write another paper Image:  William Sharp, 1749-1824after Benjamin West, 1738-1820King LearEtching and engraving, 1793S. A. Schoff CollectionLeonard Hastings Schoff bequest, 1979   Many collectors considered Sharp’s engraving of King Lear the finest of the one hundred large engravings made after paintings commissioned by London publisher and gallery owner John Boydell. George Perkins Marsh and Thomas Jefferson also owned prints from Boydell’s Shakspeare Gallery series. via The Schoff Collection, ”Building a National Collection :150 Years of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian”

BRB - time to hang out with King Lear and Fyodor Karamazov until I write another paper

Image: 

William Sharp, 1749-1824
after Benjamin West, 1738-1820
King Lear
Etching and engraving, 1793
S. A. Schoff Collection
Leonard Hastings Schoff bequest, 1979

 

Many collectors considered Sharp’s engraving of King Lear the finest of the one hundred large engravings made after paintings commissioned by London publisher and gallery owner John Boydell. George Perkins Marsh and Thomas Jefferson also owned prints from Boydell’s Shakspeare Gallery series.

via The Schoff Collection, ”Building a National Collection :150 Years of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian”