AFTER ROBERT STEWART SHERRIFFS (SCOTTISH 1906-1960)

AFTER ROBERT STEWART SHERRIFFS (SCOTTISH 1906-1960)
(i) For She is dead! The words do pieces my soul! [Act. I, Scene 4]; (ii) Zenocrate [Act. III, Scene 3];
(i) signed within the plate (lower left), inscribed and dated Tamburlaine Ediburgh '30 (lower left) and titled (lower right)
(ii) signed (lower left), inscribed and dated Tamburlaine '30 (lower left) and titled (lower right)
lithograph
39 x 28 cm (each)
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NOTES: Robert Stewart Sherriffs was a famous caricaturist, who also branched into book illustrations when he realized full-page plates as well as a number of insect vignettes in The Life and Death of Tamburlaine the Great, a play by Christopher Marlowe (1590), that was published by The Hesperides Press, Two Little Essex Street, Strand, London, 1930.

(Qty: 2)