STEEL ENGRAVING - "ANNE PEACE AND SLENDER" from the painting by Augustus Wall Callcot, engraved by E. G. Dunnel, published in 1865. This engraving is in excellent condition. The picture measures 4 ½” x 6 3/8”, and is matted to 11" x 14" for easy framing.

   This picture is illustrative of a scene in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I., Scene 1.

            Slender: - Mistress Page, you yourself shall go first.

            Anne: - Not I, Sir, pray, you keep on.

            Slender: - Truly, I shall not go first; truly, la! I will not do you that wrong.

            Anne: - I pray you, Sir.

            Slender: - I’ll rather be unmannerely than troublesome. You do yourself wrong, indeed la!

   Sir Augustus Wall Callcott was born in London in 1766, and died there 1844, having won the highest distinction as a painter.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Antique prints, etchings, engravings, and lithographs are printing processes, which use steel, copper, stone or wood blocks or plates to produce a picture on paper.

Most antique prints and engravings, which are seen on the internet today, are bookplates. Because they are pages from a book, there are multiple copies in existence. This does not, however, mean that they are "reproductions" that have been printed recently.

Because they were, at some point, part of books, some have been preserved in excellent condition, while others show signs of age, as yellow spots or darkness on the edge of the page from being handled.

Engravings, lithographs, etc., are high quality pieces of art, as it took a highly trained artist many hours of work to produce one. Although there may be multiple copies still in existence, the date of the item should be stated, thus giving the buyer an idea of its age.

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