Title: King Lear Weeping Over the Body of Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3)
Object type: Print
Date: August 1, 1792
Portfolio: Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery
Artist:  Francis Legat 
Artist bio: British, Edinburgh 1755–1809 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Engraver
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 19 7/16 × 24 11/16 in. (49.4 × 62.7 cm)
Sheet: 20 3/8 in. × 26 in. (51.7 × 66 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Geography: Published in London   England      
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Kings, term: Shakespeare, term: Men, term: Women