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Let no dress be kept in mind but the dress of Rosalind / etch'd by I. Barlow.

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Inigo Barlow

Let no dress be kept in mind but the dress of Rosalind / etch'd by I. Barlow.

Published

[London] : Publish'd as the Act directs. Febv 25th 1786. by H: Humphrey N° 51 New Bond Street', [1786]

etching
image: 237 x 193 mm; sheet: 272 x 210 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2536
Notes
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows the character of Rosalind from Shakespeare's "As you like it", dressed as a man and holding a long stick with a knotted end, walks (right to left) through the forest of Arden, indicated by trees, and a landscape background. She walks stooping forward, her profile with an aquiline nose and projecting chin gives her an elderly appearance. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.

Associated names
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints