H Beard Print Collection
1750
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1750
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 1750 by Boyce, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows an actor playing Comus in a stage scene from *The Masque of Comus*. Engraved for Ladies’ Magazine around the late 1700s, it’s a single sheet in black ink. The mask title comes from a poem Milton wrote in 1634. Boyce used a printing technique that lets light and dark stand out sharply. That style was fresh in printmaking then, so this sheet feels crisp and bold. The museum bought it as part of H. Beard’s big print collection. Look up the artist Boyce next.
The print shows an actor performing the role of Comus in John Milton’s masque *The Masque of Comus*, engraved for inclusion in the *Ladies' Magazine*.
Read the full account in the museum source.
She printed in a back room lit by a single bulb, sleeves rolled past her elbows, stacking copper plates like pancakes.
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