A steel engraving of 1870 with "The Two Roses", the Temple garden scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I, act II, scene IV, in which Plantagenet and Somerset pluck the white rose and the red. After the painting by John Dawson Watson, engraved by Thomas Sherratt, with the verses printed at the foot.
A steel engraving of 1870 with "The Two Roses", the Temple garden scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I, act II, scene IV, in which Plantagenet and Somerset pluck the white rose and the red. After the painting by John Dawson Watson, engraved by Thomas Sherratt, with the verses printed at the foot.
Medium: steel engraving
Artist / after: John Dawson Watson (1832-1892)
Engraver: Thomas Sherratt (1812-after 1880)
Publisher: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London
Date: 1870
Dimensions: 6.6 x 9.4 in (16.8 x 23.8 cm)
Condition: good; paper somewhat toned at the edges