Signed at lower right: "Wm Hamilton RA". Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Friedman 1976, p. 188, n. 380, and p. 226. Engravings: W. Angus, published 4 June 1794 for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 81 of Twelfth Night, 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (border of image and margin)
Provenance
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, no. 25, as "Sebastian, Oliver and Priest-an elegant and fine specimen," bought by A. Paxton, Esq., for 9 guineas (£9.9.0)
Source of acquisition
Hoe sale, March 1911, no. 66, $209.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 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. 7; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of the Pictures &c.in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall and A Catlogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" (only one number sequence for both large and small paintings), 1802, no. 112; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall" (last time paintings were shown together; prepatory to their sale), 1805, no. 30; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 35
