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King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)
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King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)

Francis Legat | James Barry | John & Josiah Boydell | William Shakespeare

August 1, 1792

Medium

Etching and engraving

Tags

KingsMenWomenShakespeare

Dimensions

Plate: 19 7/16 × 24 11/16 in. (49.4 × 62.7 cm) Sheet: 20 3/8 in. × 26 in. (51.7 × 66 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Francis Legat

1755 |1741 |1786 |1564 –1809 |1806 |1804 |1616 • British|Irish|British|British

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