Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III [graphic] : Monument belonging to the Capulets : Romeo and Paris dead, Juliet and Friar Laurence / Painted by Mr. Northcote, R.A.

Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III [graphic] : Monument belonging to the Capulets : Romeo and Paris dead, Juliet and Friar Laurence / Painted by Mr. Northcote, R.A.

Sotheby's title: Friar Lawrence at Capulet's tomb

[1790]

1 painting : oil on canvas ; 274 x 335 cm

canvas

Title and statement of responsibility from Boydell Shakespeare Gallery catalog, 1790, no. LVI.

Undated, but first appeared in the Shakespeare Gallery in 1790. Dated 1789 in Parma exhibition catalog.

Small-format Boydell engraving: Shakspeare. Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III. / Painted by Jas. Nortcote ; Engrav'd by Jas. Heath. Publish'd Feby. 2, 1792 by J. & J. Boydell at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside.

Large-format Boydell engraving: Shakspeare. Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III. / Painted by Jas. Nortcote ; Engrav'd by P. Simon. Publish'd Feby. 2, 1792 by John & Josiah Boydell at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90 Cheapside.

Framed in a replica Boydell Shakespeare Gallery frame created by Gold Leaf Studios, Washington, DC, in 2013.

S. Gwynn, Memories of an 18th Century Painter, 1898, p. 273, no. 254; W. M. Merchant, Shakespeare and the Artist, 1959, p. 238; W. H Friedman, Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, New York (Garland)

Painted for Alderman John Boydell for the Shakespeare Gallery; sold by lottery 28 January 1805 and won by William Tassie; sold by Christie 20 May 1805, lot 51, to G. Stainforth Esq for £210 according to printed catalog, but to Sir Francis Baring (George Stainforth's uncle) for £200 according to manuscript note in Folger PR2883 .B7 1805 copy 1 item 1 Cage; by descent from Baring to Lord Northbrook, Stratton Park; Stratton Park sale, 27 November 1929, lot 492; P.D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (as of 1997).

Lot 137 at Sotheby's London Old Master & Early British Paintings sale 29 October 2009: GBP 15,000 hammer (GBP 18,750 with Buyer's Premium).

London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall," 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1796, no. 56.
London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c. in the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall," 1802, no. 80.
London, Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, "The Exhibition of the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall-Mall," (last time paintings were shown together; preparatory to their sale), 1805, no. 78.
London, Heim Gallery, The Painted Word, British History Painting 1750-1830, 1 May-11 June 1991, no. 66.
Parma, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Füssli pittore di Shakespeare, 6 September-7 December 1997, no. 84, as "Un monumento funebre della famiglia Capuleti, Romeo e Paride morti; Giulietta e frate Lorenzo"

Great Britain -- England.

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