H Beard Print Collection
1800
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1800
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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H Beard Print Collection is a 1800 by William Paine, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print captures two women dressed for Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*. Miss Julia Harland and Miss Conquest play fairies Oberon and Puck in Act II, Scene 2. The work was printed in London and shows how Romanticism loved theatrical scenes. The artist, William Paine, worked in the 1800s. His prints often brought classic plays to life for new audiences. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more prints like this.
An engraved portrait depicts Miss Julia Harland and Miss Conquest in character as Oberon and Puck during Act II, Scene 2 of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company.
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Prints of 19th-century British life fill this artist’s small bundle. You’ll flip through portraits of Miss Glyn and Constance and scenes crowded with whiskered gentlemen from the H Beard Print Collection, all made…
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