Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
272974
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "MATHEMATICAL MERRY THOUGHTS [Shakespeare, William]; Wright, E. (illustrator); Hunt, F.C. (engraver). Mathematical Merry Thoughts. Plate 2. London: Harrison Isaacs, circa 1830. $450. Hand-colored etching and aquatint, measuring 8.75 x 10 inches. Soft crease to upper left corner. The second in a series of popular English caricature prints depicting figures constructed out of geometric shapes and solids, captioned with lines from Shakespeare’s plays. A hopeful man constructed of parallelograms ventures, in the words of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Oh: happy fair, / Your Eyes are Lode Stars and your tongues sweet air / More tunable than lark to Shepherds ear.” A triangular lady responds in the words of Titania: “I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: / Mine ear is much enamour’d of thy note, / So is mine eye enthralled to thy Shape.” A striking hand-colored print, mining the comic intersection of mathematics and poetry." Ordered from Honey & Wax Booksellers, D9758, 2024-07-26, email quote
