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New Reading, or Shakspeare [sic] Improved. Humbly Dedicated to the Keen Critic of Drury Lane, by a Poor Author Wall Art
ART BY: Charles Williams
New Reading, or Shakspeare [sic] Improved. Humbly Dedicated to the Keen Critic of Drury Lane, by a Poor Author Wall Art
ART BY: Charles Williams
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New Reading, or Shakspeare [sic] Improved. Humbly Dedicated to the Keen Critic of Drury Lane, by a Poor Author is a hand-colored etching on cream wove paper by Charles Williams (–1830), dated 1819. The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 3000 × 2126 px (3.1 MB). You will find it among Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 127 works by Charles Williams, a British artist.
Charles Williams was a British caricaturist, etcher and illustrator. He was chief caricaturist between 1799 and 1815 for the leading British publisher S.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Charles Williams →
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