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)