Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4) first published 1801; reissued 1852 Robert Thew Hoppner's image centers on a Imogen, a British princess who has learned that her banished husband believes her unfaithful, and has ordered her death. The image 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 plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression comes from an American reissue of 1852 spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily worn plates and had them reworked. His New York edition was printed on thick cream paper w

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Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4) first published 1801; reissued 1852 Robert Thew Hoppner's image centers on a Imogen, a British princess who has learned that her banished husband believes her unfaithful, and has ordered her death. The image 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 plummeted when Napoleon blocaded European ports. This impression comes from an American reissue of 1852 spearheaded by Shearjashub Spooner, a New York dental surgeon, writer and art scholar who acquired Boydell's heavily worn plates and had them reworked. His New York edition was printed on thick cream paper w

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