# Scene from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OPIE, John]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary This engraving was made after one of Opie's large compositions for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. It depicts Act II, scene III of Shakespear's Winter's Tale. The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery was a three-part project initiated in November 1786 by engraver and publisher John Boydell \(1720-1804\) in an effort to foster a school of British history painting. Boydell planned to focus on an illustrated edition of William Shakespeare's plays and a folio of prints, but during the 1790s the London gallery that showed the original paintings emerged as the project's most popular element. ## Related artworks - [Confession]() - [Peasant Family]() - [Portrait of John Penwarne Jr.]() - [Portrait of Miss Frances Vinicombe]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()