Shakespeare signboard [graphic].
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Title
Shakespeare signboard [graphic].
Created/published
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Description
1 painting on mahogany panel, oval : oil ; 94.2 x 80 cm
Material base
wood
Note
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Mary Hyde, "Shakespeare's Head," Shakespeare Quarterly 16 (1965), pp. 139-43; S. Schoenbaum, "Artists' Images of Shakespeare," in Werner Habicht, D. J. Palmer, and Roger Pringle, eds., Images of Shakespeare: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shakespeare Association, 1986, Newark, Del., 1988, pp. 19-23; Gary Taylor, Reinventing Shakespeare, New York, 1989, fig. 7.
Provenance
Provenance: Discovered in 1962 by the book dealer Jacques Vellekoop of E. P. Goldschmidt, London; came to America in the spring of that year.
Source of acquisition
Gift, Mary Hyde (later Lady Eccles), Four Oaks Farm, Somerville, N.J., October 1975.
Exhibited
Exhibited: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, "Shakespeare's Four Hundreth Anniversary Exhibition," 1964,; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, and six other cities in traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," 1979-1982, repr. in color p. 86; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 28, 1994.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. Will and Jane: Shakespeare, Austen and the Cult of Celebrity.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016. Will and Jane: Shakespeare, Austen and the Cult of Celebrity.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 157
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPs9
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Item Details
Call number
FPs9
Folger-specific note
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