Shylock rebuffing Antonio [graphic] / R. Westall 1795.

1795.

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 32 1/16 x 21 1/16 in. (81.5 x 54 cm)

canvas

In its original frame.
Title from Pressly.

Friedman 1976, p. 198, n. 388, and p. 242, as "Antonio conducted to Prison".

Provenance: 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. 8, as "Antonio conducted to Prison," bought by Crome, Esq. for 9 1/2 guineas (£9.19.6)

G. Michelmore & Co., Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London SW1, February 1922, £125 (£250 for this picture and no. 58)

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. 47; 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. 103; London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Galley, Pall-Mall," (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 113; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 23; 'Eliz. View of Italy,' Mar-Jun.93; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct.28, 1993-Feb 15, 1994.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution (catalog entry 33).

Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 86 (Plate 4)

Great Britain -- England.

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