Second Part of King Henry IV, act V, scene V. King and his Train, Falstaff, &c. [graphic]
1795
Available at On exhibit
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS | |
Linked Resource
Title
Second Part of King Henry IV, act V, scene V. King and his Train, Falstaff, &c. [graphic]
Variant title
:Pressly title Falstaff rebuked
Created/published
ca. 1795.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 80 x 55.9 cm + frame 42 1/2 x 33.75 x 5 in.
Associated name
Material base
canvas
Note
Title from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery catalog.
Engravings after: Joseph Collyer, published 4 June 1795, for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 119 of II Henry IV, 10 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (image and margin); a later outline engraving by Starling, 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (image)
Engravings after: Joseph Collyer, published 4 June 1795, for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 119 of II Henry IV, 10 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (image and margin); a later outline engraving by Starling, 4 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (image)
Publications about material
Friedman 1976, p. 212, n. 415, and p. 236; Altick 1985, pp. 289-90.
Condition
The paint is thinly applied on a white ground, and there are small areas of inpainting throughout.
Provenance
Commissioned by Alderman John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery; sold by lottery 28 January 1805 and won by William Tassie; sold by Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 17 May 1805, lot 6, as "The King rebuking Falstaff--painted in a fine clear tone of colouring," bought by John Mehux for 13 guineas (£13.13.0); Joseph Pyke as of 1891.
Source of acquisition
Michelmore, October 1922, £125 (£250 for this picture and no. 85)
Exhibited
London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, 1795-1805 ("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. 16; "A Catalogue of the Pictures &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, 1796, no. 18; "A Catalogue of Small Pictures Painted for the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall" (only one number sequence for both large and small paintings), 1802, no. 126, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall," (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 105).
London, Whitechapel (St. Jude's), 1891, no. 145? (see Graves 1913)
London, Grafton Gallery (Musical), 1892, no. 85 (see Graves 1913)
Amherst, Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Henry IV" (no catalogue), 1959.
London, Whitechapel (St. Jude's), 1891, no. 145? (see Graves 1913)
London, Grafton Gallery (Musical), 1892, no. 85 (see Graves 1913)
Amherst, Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Henry IV" (no catalogue), 1959.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 57 (Plate 3)
Linked resources
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Call number
FPa54
Folger-specific note
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Folger accession
cs1090