Twelfth Night. Act II. Scene III. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria [graphic] / Wm. Hamilton RA.

Twelfth Night. Act II. Scene III. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria [graphic] / Wm. Hamilton RA.

Pressly title: The carousing of Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek

1792.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 78.5 x 57 cm + frame ca. 42 x 32 in.

canvas

Title from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery catalog.

Signed and dated at lower right: "Wm. Hamilton RA / 1792".

Engravings: J. Fittler, published 24 December 1793 for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 27 of Twelfth Night, 10 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (border of image and margin)

Friedman 1976, p. 188, n. 380, and p. 225.

Provenance: Commissioned by Alderman John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery; sold by lottery 28 January 1805 and won by William Tassie; sold by Christie 18 May 1805, lot 26, as "Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria-full of humour and possessing an admirable effect," bought by John Green for 13 1/2 guineas (£14.3.6)

Robert Hoe sale, American Art Galleries, affiliated with American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, and Madison Ave., 56th to 57th streets, 17 February 1911, lot 66, $230 (price given in annotated copy of catalogue in the National Gallery Library), Wright acting as agent.

Exhibited: London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" (bound with the 1794 edition of the catalogue of the large paintings, but the number sequence begins again at "1"), 1795, no. 5; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall", (bound with the 1796 edition of the catalogue of the large paintings, but the number sequence begins again at "1"), 1796, no. 6; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of the Pictures &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" and "A Catalogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" (only one number sequence for both large and small paintings), 1802, no. 111; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall" (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 34; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994.

Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 34 (Plate 2)

Great Britain -- England.

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