- Creator:
- Print made by Lydia Bates, active 1784after John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
- Title:
- Literary Characters Assembled around the Medallion of Shakespeare
- Date:
- ca. 1777
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 9/16 inches (28.5 x 42 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Inscribed in graphite, center right: "ILLUSTRATE"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.7.4
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- hands | literary theme | books | portrait | heads | woman | reading | crowd | men | satire | caricature | effigies | eyeglasses
- Currently On View:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19691