Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

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This print reproduces a painting that Bonington made around 1825 and shows one of the Merry Wives of Windsor, Anne Page, gesturing towards the foolish Slender who mistakenly believes that the lady welcome his advances. One of the artist's earliest figure subjects in oil, the poses and costumes echo Joseph Strutt's "Complete Book of English Costumes and Vestments" (1797).

Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1), Samuel William Reynolds, the elder (British, London 1773–1835 London), Mezzotint and etching; before first state

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