Author: Pressly, William L.
Title: A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: "As Imagination Bodies Forth
Description: New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Ocher cloth boards with black stamped spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated and red dust jacket with white lettering. Ocher cloth-covered hardshell slipcase. x, 385 pp. BW and color illustrations. "The Folger Shakespeare Library contains the finest collection of Shakespearean art ever assembled. Its two hundred paintings include scenes from Shakespeare's plays, portraits of the actors, and portraits of the playwright and his contemporaries, works that have been painted by artists such as Benjamin West, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Sully, George Romney, and Thomas Nast. This books is the first analysis, history, and catalogue of this important collection." -Front Flap. VG/VG-/VG .

Keywords: European Art, Shakespearean Art ; Shakespearean Art ; ; Collections - European Art


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