Framed and Matted Color Print "Grenadier Guards Band With a Loose Yeomanry Horse
1880ref. 21429London: George Routledge & Sons 1880. Very Good. Disaster strikes a military band in this farcical print pulled from "Military Misreadings of Shakespere" a humorous color plate book published around 1880 the conceit of which was to apply quotations from Shakespeare to some aspect of military life but to do so with an outrageous misreading of the quote's intended meaning. The quoatation applied here comes from Hamlet Act I and is "His Liberty is a threat to all." As far as the illustration here goes one need not know the source to find the image amusing in an over-the-top slapstick way. And although the print is extracted from a book one wouldn't know it just by looking at it. It comes close to passing as a watercolor and one sees none of the usual indications that it was a page from a book. Visible 16.6 by 20.5 cm. With frame and matting 38 by 40.5 cm. The frame and matting are particularly attractive and we can't imagine anyone wouldn't want to retain them. Indeed they are important in making an appealing decorative object. The print does have some light foxing yet that issue doesn't significantly mar our enjoyment of the print. George Routledge & Sons unknown
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