The eighteenth century brought a renewed interest in the works of Shakespeare thanks to the likes of David Garrick who started tours from his hometown of Stratford upon Avon. To meet this interest Thomas Macklin commissioned one of the largest publishing ventures of the late eighteenth century entitled ‘The Poet’s Gllery’, second only to another work on Shakespeare by John Boydell. Macklin employed the celebrated satirical artist Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) to produce twenty-five scenes from Shakespeare’s works. The nature of the work concentrated on the comic elements and scenes are drawn from works such as ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ and ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. The great comic character Falstaff appears in several of them. The engravings themselves were all done in the golden age of stipple, either undertaken by Macklin himself or other prominent engravers such as Francesco Bartolozzi, John Chapman, Thomas Tompkins, Michele Beneditti and others. Each engraving is ‘from the original drawing in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York’. Bunbury was appointed Equerry to the Duke of York in 1787. Clayton (1997).