03 — ARTWORK
Scene from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale
- MEDIUM
- Engraving
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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This engravingA print made from a metal plate that has had a design cut into it with a sharp point. Ink is smeared over the plate and then wiped off, the ink remaining in the etched lines being transferred when the plate is pressed very firmly onto a sheet of paper. was made after one of Opie's large compositions for Boydell's Shakespeare Galleryan upper story, similar to a tribune, running along the side of a building and open on one side to the interior; in a church (basilica) above the side aisles, over the ambulatory (central-plan building) and also over the west end. The gallery was used to keep certain groups of worshippers apart (women, noblemen).. 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 paintingPainting concerned with the representation of scenes from the Bible, history (usually classical history), and classical literature. From the Renaissance to the 19th century it was considered the highest form of painting, its subjects considered morally elevating.. 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.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Scene from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale by OPIE, John},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/opie-john-rb6097f0d94695f/scene-from-shakespeares-winters-tale-r908446adafd5ff},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
