1-155-548 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Scene from Shakespeare's Richard III, (1591) c1870. Richard III (King of England 1483-1485), Duke of Gloucester at this time, woos Anne, daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, 'The Kingmaker', as she accompanies the corpse of Henry VI. She rejects him initially but they are later married. Illustration for Act I: Scene II of the tragedy Richard III by William Shakespeare. (London, c1870).