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Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Buildings and members of Pembroke College, Oxford. Lithograph by Beynon & Company.

William Shakespeare with fourteen of his friends and contemporaries in the Mermaid tavern, London. Mezzotint by James Faed after John Faed.

William Shakespeare with thirteen of his friends and contemporaries in the Mermaid tavern, London. Lithograph after John Faed.

Episode in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle": a man with a barber's bowl beneath his chin is about to be clubbed by a knight in armour; a man stands immediately behind him, to the left is a seated couple, to the right a man who has been knocked down, and in the foreground the audience looks on. Etching by C. Grignion after M. Rooker.

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / Adorn'd with cuts.

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Francis Beaumont

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The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / Adorn'd with cuts.

Francis Beaumont

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Images by Francis Beaumont

Images featuring Francis Beaumont

Works from the collections

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / Adorn'd with cuts.

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