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Title: Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare
Engraver:
T. W. Huffam (British, active 1825–56)
Artist:
After Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill] (British, London 1804–1872 London)
Publisher:
R. C. Lambe (London)
Subject:
William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon)
Date: 1843
Medium: Mezzotint and etching
Dimensions:
Plate: 13 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (33.4 × 25.7 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (47 × 35 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number: 24.63.1199
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