Title: Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene II / Shakespeare Gallery (Click to view)
Description: Inscription Content: Lettered in open scratched letters below the image "Shakspeare.", and "Smirk. pinxit. Publish'd June 1st: 1790, by J.&J. Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London. Ogborne Sculpsit.". Constables Dogberry and Verges sit on a dias, looking pompous, while the clerk Seacoal takes notes in the foreground on a low stool, all fixing their attentions on Borachio and Conrade who stand on the right, guarded by a man with a pike, while another tightens the knots binding their hands; etched state before full lettering. 1790 British stipple British Printmakers XVIIIc Plan Press Prints & Drawings
(credits: The British Museum)

Title: Shakespeare Gallery / Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, Scene II (Click to view)
Description: Inscription Content: Lettered below the image with "Shakspeare.", title, line from scene, production detail: "Painted by Robt. Smirke", "Engrav'd by Jno. Ogborne" and publication line: "Publish'd March 1st. 1791 by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall, & at No. 90 Cheapside" Constables Dogberry and Verges sit on a dias, looking pompous, while the clerk Seacoal takes notes in the foreground on a low stool, all fixing their attentions on Borachio and Conrade who stand on the right, guarded by a man with a pike, while another tightens the knots binding their hands. 1791 British stipple British Printmakers XVIIIc Plan Press Prints & Drawings
(credits: The British Museum)

Title: Macklin’s Shakespeare Gallery / Dogberry and Verges with the Watch (Click to view)
Description: Inscription Content: Lettered below image with title, note on the drawing (in the collection of the Duchess of York) and lines from the play: "Dog. Are you good Men and true? Ver. Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer Salvation, body and soul. Dog. Nay that were a punishment too good for them, If they should have any alegiance in them, being chosen for the Prince's watch. Ver. Well give them their charge, neighbour Dogbery. Dog. First, who think you the most disartless man to be constable? 1st Watch, Hugh Oatcake, sir, or George Seacoal; for they can write and read. Dog. Come hither, neighbour Seacoal; God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature." , with production detail: "H. Bunbury Esqr. delt.", "R.M.Meadows Sculpt." and publication line: "London, Publish'd Jany. 1st. 1793, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street." A gang of men with staffs standing in a street, one standing apart at left, a dog in the foreground and domed building behind; after Bunbury. 1793 British colour etching hand-coloured stipple British XVIIIc Unmounted Portfolio Prints & Drawings
(credits: The British Museum)