Prince Arthur Giving Welcome to the Archduke of Austria, etc. (Shakespeare, King John, Act 2, Scene 1)
Medium
Stipple engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 11 in. × 14 1/2 in. (27.9 × 36.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.426
Tags
Art Historical Context
This stipple engraving captures a dramatic from Shakespeare’s *King*, Act 2, Scene 1, in which young Prince Arthur welcomes the Archduke of Austria. Created in 1791, the print reflects the late eighteenth-century surge of interest in Shakespearean imagery, when publishers commissioned artists to visualize the plays for a growing audience of readers and theatergoers. The scene is alive with figures of princes and women, along with the horses that signal the arrival of royal and military parties, bringing the historical drama vividly to life. The work is the result of collaboration among design...
About the Artist
James Birchall|William Hamilton|John Ogborne|William Shakespeare (British|British|Italian) · 1751 |1781 |1728 –1801 |1794 |1815
British, London 1751–1801 London|British, active 1781–94|Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon