'Shakespeare sacrificed, or the offering to avarice', : James Gillray

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'Shakespeare sacrificed, or the offering to avarice', 1789. Publisher John Boydell commissioned paintings illustrating subjects from Shakespeare's plays. His scheme to sell engravings made after the pictures is criticised here. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).

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