Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4) first published 1801; reissued 1852 Robert Thew Hoppner's image centers on a Imogen, a British princess who has learned that her banished husband believes her unfaithful, and has ordered her death. The image was conceived for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, launched in 1786 as a publishing-cum-exhibition scheme that included a new illustrated edition of the plays, sets of large and small engravings, and a gallery on London's Pall Mall. The latter opened in 1789 with thirty-four paintings and contained about one hundred and seventy
Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4) first published 1801; reissued 1852 Robert Thew Hoppner's image centers on a Imogen, a British princess who has learned that her banished husband believes her unfaithful, and has ordered her death. The image was conceived for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, launched in 1786 as a publishing-cum-exhibition scheme that included a new illustrated edition of the plays, sets of large and small engravings, and a gallery on London's Pall Mall. The latter opened in 1789 with thirty-four paintings and contained about one hundred and seventy works the time Boydell went bankrupt and auctioned the contents in 1805–his print sales plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression comes from an American reissue of 1852 spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily worn plates and had them reworked. His New York edition was printed on thick cream paper with small numbers added in the lower left margin, this being number Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4) 707745
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