Romeo and Juliet at the Masquerade (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5)

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Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked party given by her family, the Capulets. Based on a drawing by Hamilton, Bartolozzi's print shows Romeo dressed as a pilgrim, to echo the playful language of Shakespeare's text. Juliet's nurse, at right, is apprehensive about this intrusion by a Montague into the domain of their declared enemies, the Capulets.

Romeo and Juliet at the Masquerade (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5), Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon), Stipple engraving, and etching, printed in brown ink

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