Object number1968.25.6
Shakespeare: "Coriolanus", Act V, Scene iii, from Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery
Date1803
Artist
J. Caldwell
(English)
after
Gavin Hamilton
(Scottish, 1723-1798)
CultureEnglish
MediumEngraving
DimensionsImage: 19 5/8 x 24 7/8 in. (49.85 x 63.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Matthew Vassar Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
InscribedInscribed (LR, on plate): Engraved by J. Caldwell.; (LL): Painted by G. Hamilton; (on plate bottom): SHAKSPEARE, Coriolanus. Act V. Scene III / Coriolanus, Aufidius, Vergilia, Volumnia, Young Marcius, Valeria, and Attendants. / Vol. ------------------Say, my request's unjust, / And spurn me back: But, if it be not so, / Thous art not honest; and the gods will plague thee, / That thu restrain'st form me the duty, which / To a mother's part belongs, ----------He turns away: Down ladies; let us shame him with our knees. / To his surname Corniolanus 'longs more pride, / Than pity to our prayers. ------Down: An end; This is the last: ---------So we will home to Rome, / And die among our neighbours. -----Nay, behold us: This boy, that cannot tell what he would have, / But kneeds, and holds up hands, for fellowship, Does reason our petition with more strength / Than thou hast to deny't. ------Come, let us go: / Pub. June 4. 1803 by J. and J. Boydell. at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall; and No. 90. Cheapside, London
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