Shakespeare's House – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Shakespeare's House in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Shakespeare's House
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This wood engraving shows the Shakespeare house in Stratford-upon-Avon, the half-timbered building traditionally identified as the playwright's birthplace on Henley Street. It appeared in The Illustrated London News in September 1847, a weekly paper that used engravings like this to bring distant places and landmarks to readers who would never visit them. The 1840s were a period of growing interest in Shakespeare as a national figure, and the town's houses drew pilgrims and tourists. The record's details are unverified, so the exact date and the house's identification should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | 1847 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engravings. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1847 Sept. 18, p. 180. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Engl.--Stratford; B.I.; Dwellings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,016 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156524 |
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