Cassandra Raving (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2) first published 1795; reissued 1852 Francis Legat Holding an axe, Cassandra laments the fall of Troy, which burns behind her. Lines from the play, engraved below, read: "Cry, Trojans, cry; lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears." Romney's related painting was conceived for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, launched in 1786 as a publishing-cum-exhibition scheme that included a new illustrated edition of the plays, sets of large and small engravings, and a gallery on London's Pall Mall. The latter opened in 1789 with thirty-four paintings and contained about one hundred and seventy works the time Boydell went bankrupt and auctioned the contents in 1805-his print sales had plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression comes from an 1852 American reissue spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily wo

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Cassandra Raving (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 2) first published 1795; reissued 1852 Francis Legat Holding an axe, Cassandra laments the fall of Troy, which burns behind her. Lines from the play, engraved below, read: "Cry, Trojans, cry; lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears." Romney's related painting was conceived for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, launched in 1786 as a publishing-cum-exhibition scheme that included a new illustrated edition of the plays, sets of large and small engravings, and a gallery on London's Pall Mall. The latter opened in 1789 with thirty-four paintings and contained about one hundred and seventy works the time Boydell went bankrupt and auctioned the contents in 1805-his print sales had plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression comes from an 1852 American reissue spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily wo

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