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Pistol eating Fluellens Leak, Vide, Henry Vth

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After Henry BunburyPistol eating Fluellens Leak, Vide, Henry VthLondon, Ca. 1811EtchingOriginal hand colouring250 350 mm

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After Henry Bunbury

Pistol eating Fluellens Leak, Vide, Henry Vth

London, Ca. 1811

Etching

Original hand colouring

250 350 mm

£150

A crude copy in line of a plate in the set of stipple illustrations to Shakespeare, after Bunbury, published by Macklin. The original is the serious illustration of a comic subject; the copy has the character of caricature. Pistol sits on the ground clutching his sword in both hands, his mouth distended by a large leek; he scowls towards Fluellen (right) who threatens him with raised cudgel. Behind the latter stands a grinning man at arms holding a spear. The scene is open country with a large camp in the middle distance. The costume is quasi-Elizabethan, but Pistol has a long pigtail queue, and beside him is a large cocked hat.