The Shakspeare Gallery, containing the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet. Engraved ... from drawings by the first artists, under the superintendence of C. H. [With portions of the text
A gift album of forty-five steel engravings of Shakespeare's heroines, cut by Charles Heath after drawings by contemporary British artists and issued in London in 1836 for the drawing-room annual trade. Each plate sets a single woman, half or three-quarter length, in an octagonal vignette with softly stippled backgrounds of foliage, arches and curtains; useful for period costume, hair, jewellery and shaped frames.
