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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb14
Details
Title
Romeo and Juliet [graphic].
Created/published
ca. 1840s.
Description
1 painting : oil on tin ; 7 15/16 x 6 5/8 in. (20.2 x 17 cm)
Associated name
Mansfield, Richard, former owner.
Material base
metal
Note
Rehoused in custom clamshell box 1/11/99.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Source of acquisition
Richard Mansfield sale, Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 7-8 (7) May 1926, lot 150, $25 for pair plus 10 percent commission, Rosenbach acting as agent. (In the sale catalogue the works are described as "Early Victorian School. Two Shakespearian Subjects. One representing 'Romeo and Juliet'; the other, "Much Ado About Nothing.' On copper.")
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 97
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb14
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb14 (clamshell box with FPb15 and FPb28)
Folger-specific note
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