Macbeth. Proof.
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinx.t S.W. Reynolds Sculp.t.
Stipple and etching. Plate 228 x 253mm (9 x 10"). Trimmed inside left platemark.
Macbeth in the foreground to left, seen from the back, faces the witches and the apparitions; by his feet, inside a coiled snake, stand a small bloody child and a child wearing a crown and holding a tree, behind them are the kings, one holding a mirror, and a large figure of a soldier, pointing; the witches sit on the far, Hecate in the middle, with her forefinger pointing upwards.
Whitman: p.149 (Appendix): 56*. For a later state see ref. 9567.
[Ref: 21501] £120.00
Stipple and etching. Plate 228 x 253mm (9 x 10"). Trimmed inside left platemark.
Macbeth in the foreground to left, seen from the back, faces the witches and the apparitions; by his feet, inside a coiled snake, stand a small bloody child and a child wearing a crown and holding a tree, behind them are the kings, one holding a mirror, and a large figure of a soldier, pointing; the witches sit on the far, Hecate in the middle, with her forefinger pointing upwards.
Whitman: p.149 (Appendix): 56*. For a later state see ref. 9567.
[Ref: 21501] £120.00