Additions to Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam by David Garrick Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm John Bowyer Nichols and Sons

John Bowyer Nichols and Sons

Smeaton wears a short brown wig and is posed with his left hand in his pocket

This was still a time when Britain was wary about allowing any ritual in the Anglican Church that would smack of Catholicism

Tyre change in the pits

The building of York Minster began in 1220

Additions to Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam by David Garrick Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm John Bowyer Nichols and SonsAdditions to the comic part of Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam in David Garrick's handwriting, 18th century, (1840). Additions made by by the actor David Garrick (1717 1779) to William Shakespeare's play A Midsummers Night's Deam, written in the 1590s. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).