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Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon

Lettered, lower left: "Painted by Francis Wheatley, R.A. | Pet. But for my bonny Kate, she must with me. | Nay look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret; | I will be master of what is mine own; | She is my goods, my chattles, she is my house, | My household stuff, my field, my barn, | My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything; | And here she stands, touch her whoever dare;"; lettered, lower right: "Engraved by J.P.Simon. | I'll bring my action on the proudest he | That stops my way in Padua. --Grumio, | Draw forth thy weapoin, we're beset with thieves; | Rescue thy mistress if thou be a man;-- | Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate; | I'll buckler thee against a million."; lettered, lower center: "SHAKSPEARE. | Taming of the Shrew; | ACT II. SCENE II. | Baptista's house.--, Petruchio, Katherine, Bianca, &c. | Published, Jany.1.1795 by JOHN & JOSIAH BOYDELL, at the Shakespeare-Gallery, Pall Mall, & at No.90, Cheapside, LONDON."