Crane (Walter) Eight original illustrations for The Merry Wives of Windsor, pen and black ink, brush and ink, some corrections in white, traces of graphite under-drawing, each signed with monogram lower right, on Whatman wove paper, two sheets featuring countermark initial 'B', each sheet approx 285 x 230 mm. (11 1/4 x 9 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1894], (8).

Provenance:
Ex-collection of Duncan C. Dallas (the inventor of the "dallastype" printing technique)

⁂ The set comprises 1. Anne: Will't please your worship to come in, Sir? ( act I, scene II); 2. Mistress Page: Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and Ford differs? ( act II, scene I); 3. Falstaff: But what says she to me? be brief, my good she-Mercury , ( act II, scene II) ; 4. Falstaff: I love thee, help me away, let me creep in here, I'll never -, ( act III, scene III); 5. Anne: May be he tells you true , ( act III, scene IV); 6. Ford: I'll prat her - Out of my door, you witch , (act IV, scene II ); 7. Sir H. Evans: Come, will this wood take fire? (act V, scene V); 8. Falstaff: I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass, ( act V, scene V).