Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: [Illustrations to Twelfth night and Merry wives] [graphic] / E.F. Burney.

Digital Image File Name: 
35782
Source Call Number: 
ART Box B965 no.2 (size L)
Source Creator: 
Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848, artist.
Source Title: 
[Illustrations to Twelfth night and Merry wives] [graphic] / E.F. Burney.
Source Created or Published: 
[late 18th or early 19th century?]
Digital Image Type: 
FSL collection
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD: 
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Creator (Hamnet): 
Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848, artist.
Title (Hamnet): 
[Illustrations to Twelfth night and Merry wives] [graphic] / E.F. Burney.
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet): 
[late 18th or early 19th century?]
Physical Description (Hamnet): 
3 drawings on cardboard mounts : pen and ink with ink and color washes ; images 127 x 78 mm. or smaller, on mounts 426 x 329 mm.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Sir Hugh Evans, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Viola, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merry wives of Windsor. Act 2. Scene 2, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merry wives of Windsor. Act 3. Scene 1, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Twelfth night. Act 1. Scene 5, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Viola (Fictitious character : Shakespeare), depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Evans, Sir Hugh (Fictitious character), depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Book illustrations -- 18th century.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Book illustrations -- 19th century.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Drawings -- 18th century.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Drawings -- 19th century.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Ford, Alice (Fictitious character), depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Olivia (Fictitious character : Shakespeare), depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Alice Ford, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Falstaff, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Olivia, depicted.
Subject (Hamnet): 
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character), depicted.
Notes (Hamnet): 
Artist: E.F. Burney was the nephew of Charles Burney, the musicologist, and cousin to Fanny Burney whose portrait he painted. He was a book illustrator of the late 18th century who contributed to Bell's Shakespeare and Bell's British theatre as well as numerous other publications.
Notes (Hamnet): 
Date range is based on style of drawings.
Notes (Hamnet): 
History: Burney contributed 7 designs to Bell's edition of Shakespeare, all of which follow the same format as the 3 designs noted here. The scenes in Bell illustrated by Burney are from Two gentlemen of Verona, Taming of the shrew, All's well, King John, Henry IV, pt. 2, King Lear, and Cymbeline. Original designs for King John, King Lear, and Cymbeline are housed in the Turner extra illustrated Shakespeare at the Huntington Library. A reproduction of the King John design included in R.R. Wark's catalog of the Turner Shakespeare shows its similarity to the 3 Folger drawings. A pencil note at the bottom right corner of the backing to which the Folger Burney drawings have been glued claims them to have been engraved, though they are not included in Bell's Shakespeare. Cataloger has been unable to locate engravings after these designs elsewhere.
Notes (Hamnet): 
Illustrations are executed in tondos, 3" in diameter, which are centered in rectangles with ornamental motifs above the tondos and space for the Shakespeare play to be noted beneath. The notes identifying the plays, however, have been written not in this space but below the rectangular design. Items are labeled with play, title, act and scene division and quotation from the text. One of the drawings is initialed "E.F.B.," the other two are signed "E.F. Burney."
Notes (Hamnet): 
Provenance: Drawings are part of a collection of 122 Shakespearean watercolors, mostly attributed to J.M. Wright, with a few by other artists. The collection was purchased from a private owner by "Sabin" c. 1898 and sold to the Folgers by Gabriel Wells, April 28, 1920. (ART Inventory 289, nos. 102-104, formerly).
Notes (Hamnet): 
Subject: Twelfth night, act I, sc. 9 [i.e. sc. 5], Olivia unveiling herself to Viola who is dressed in male clothing (no.2), Merry wives of Windsor, act III, sc. 1, Evans weeping with a book in his left hand and his right hand to his eyes, "Mercy on me I have great disposition to cry" (no.3), Merry wives of Windsor, act II, sc. 2, Falstaff welcoming Ford disguised as Brooks. Falstaff is seated, holding a cup of sack in his right hand. A man stands in the doorway behind him (no.4).
Call Number (Hamnet): 
ART Box B965 no.2 (size L)