Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

Samuel William Reynolds, the elder|Richard Parkes Bonington|Moon, Boys & Graves|William Shakespeare

1829 · Mezzotint and etching; before first state · Drawings and Prints

This print reproduces a painting that Bonington made around 1825 and shows one of the Merry Wives of Windsor, Anne Page, gesturing towards the foolish Slender who mistakenly believes that the lady welcome his advances. One of the artist's earliest figure subjects in oil, the poses and costumes echo Joseph Strutt's "Complete Book of English Costumes and Vestments" (1797).

Artist

Samuel William Reynolds, the elder|Richard Parkes Bonington|Moon, Boys & Graves|William Shakespeare

Date

1829

Medium

Mezzotint and etching; before first state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924