King Henry VIII, act III, scene II. Wolsey, Duke of Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain [graphic] / R.W.

King Henry VIII, act III, scene II. Wolsey, Duke of Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey, and the Lord Chamberlain [graphic] / R.W.

Pressly title: Wolsey disgraced

1795.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 31 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (80.6 x 55 cm)

canvas

Title from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery catalog.

Initialed and dated lower left, "R.W. 1795"

Engravings: W. C. Wilson, published 29 September 1796, for 1802 Boydell edition of Shakespeare's plays, facing p. 76 of King Henry VIII, 10 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (border of image and margin)

Friedman 1976, p. 198, n. 388, and p. 240.

Commissioned by Alderman John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery; sold by lottery 28 January 1805 and won by William Tassie; sold by Christie 17 May 1805, no. 13, as "Wolsey disgraced and receiving the discovered Paper from Henry the VIIIth-very fine," bought by John Mehux, Esq., for 15 guineas (£15.15.0)

G. Michelmore & Co., Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London SW1, October 1922, £125 (£250 for this picture and no. 57)

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. 22; 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. 25; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catlogue 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. 135; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall," (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 112.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Vivat Rex! (catalog entry 79)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare.

Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 85

Great Britain -- England.

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