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Lettered below image, lower left: "Painted by James Northcote"; lower center: SHAKSPEARE. | King Richard the Third, | ACT IV SCENE III. | Publifhed June 4th, 1790, by John & Josiah Boydell, at the Shakfpeare Gallery Pall Mall & at No. 90 Cheapfide."; lower right: "Engraved by Francis Legat"; lettered below image center left: "O thus, quoth Dighton, lay the gentle babes, - | Thus, thus, quoth Forreft, girdling one another | Within their alabaster innocent arms: | Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, | Which in their summer beauty kifs'd each other. | A book of prayers on their pillow lay;"; center right: "Which once, quoth Forreft, almost chang'd my mind: | But, O, the devil - there the villain ftopp'd; | When Dighton thus told on, we smothered | The most replenished sweet work of nature | That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd."