Pen and ink with a watercolor wash, approximately 14 x 17 inches. The Shakespeare Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.

This drawing depicts the end of Act II, Scene vii; Friar Laurence leads Romeo and Juliet from his cell to marry them: "Come, come with me, and we will make short work; / For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till Holy Church incorporate two in one." This is one of twenty-two Shakespeare illustrations by Bunbury.

Bunbury's Shakespeare drawings were commissioned by Thomas Macklin who, like John Boydell, enlisted artists to produce pictures to be engraved for a larger market; the twenty-two illustrations by Bunbury were engraved in 1792-96. Macklin also published a series of illustrations for the Bible as well as a set of one hundred pictures entitled The Poets' Gallery. Like Boydell, he had engaged the talents of many artists working at the end of the eighteenth century (Christian 168).