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Sir Iohn Falstaff in the buck basket from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens [graphic].

Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.; Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
1748
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Title
Sir Iohn Falstaff in the buck basket from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens [graphic].
Created/published
[London] : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, [between 1748 and 1760]
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 181 x 277 mm
Associated name
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Material base
paper
Summary
Illustration to act 3, scene 3 of the Merry Wives of Windsor. Two servant women help Falstaff hide in a basket, one covers him with a sheet at viewer's left as the other tugs at his boot, while keeping watch to viewer's right.
Note
Title from item.

Plate numbered "2" in upper right corner.

After a painting by Francis Hayman for Vauxhall Gardens.

Date based on period Robert Sayer was in trade at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street.
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
ART 248- 377 (size M)
Folger-specific note
Adopted by Robert and Jane Geniesse, Acquistions Night 1999.
Folger accession
248377

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