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Title
Falstaff's cowardice detected [graphic] / after Francis Hayman.
Created/published
Mid-eighteenth century.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 26.4 x 37 cm + frame ca. 16 x 19.5 in.
Associated name
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Note
Engravings after original: C. Grignion, published 4 April 1743 by Thomas Bowles, 10 1/4 x 13 15/16 in., inscribed with verse: "When Henry in Disguise had rob'd the knight, / He hack'd his Sword & swore 'twas don in Fight. / The Prince declares the whole-Sr. John can frame / No instant Falshood to elude his Shame- / At length, cries he- 'Should I've my Prince withstood, / 'The Lyon knows by Instinct Royal Blood- / 'I knew thee Hal, soon as thou cams't in Sight- / 'Twas Loyalty, not Fear, that wing'd my Flight."; undated engraving published by Robert Sayer.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Highfill 1973-, vol. 12, p. 241 (no. 13)
Source of acquisition
A.L. Betts, 98 Sutherland Ave., Maida Vale, London W9, May 1928, £18, purchased as a scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor by Hayman.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 38
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb12 (rack C-2A)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1780