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150 Years
of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian
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William Sharp, 1749-1824
after Benjamin West, 1738-1820
King Lear
Etching and engraving, 1793
S. A. Schoff Collection
Leonard Hastings Schoff bequest, 1979
Many collectors considered Sharp's engraving of King Lear the finest of the one
hundred large engravings made after paintings commissioned by London publisher
and gallery owner John Boydell. George Perkins Marsh and Thomas Jefferson also
owned prints from Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery series.
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