The great scene in Macbeth at His Majesty's Theatre [graphic] / [Fortunino Matania].
1911
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Title
The great scene in Macbeth at His Majesty's Theatre [graphic] / [Fortunino Matania].
Created/published
[1911]
Description
1 item : wash and opaque ; support: 21 x 28 1/4 in. ;image: 15 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.
Associated name
Material base
paper
Note
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Title taken from caption on printed version of picture which continues 'The usurping King affrighted by the ghost of Banquo at the feast'. Macbeth is pictured right of center looking at the ghost who is pictured seated on the throne next to a standing Lady Macbeth. Drawing is signed and has pencil notes in the margin and is stamped on verso 'The Sphere'.
Artist: Matania is noted as a historical and battle painter. He was on the staff of the London magazine The sphere and became Special Artist for that magazine in 1914. He was elected RI in 1917. His stlye is noted by Houfe as being 'heroic rather than realistic'. (FSL has 5 other drawings of Matania's ills. for the Sphere).
History: Drawing was published as the center spread for the Sept. 16 1911 (Vol. xlvi, no.608) issue of The sphere p.294-295. FSL has a copy of the magazine in ART Flat a16 no.15.
Subject: The bottom caption of the printed copy of the drawing reads: 'Sir Herbert Tree Apostrophising the Ghost of Banquo, Represented by A Clever Arrangement of Lighting and Not by a Living Actor, Macbeth: Avaunt! and quit my sight ... Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act III, Sc. 4'. The play was produced by Tree at His Majesty's Theatre and starred Tree as Macbeth and Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Macbeth (also pictured in this drawing).
Provenance: Item was purchased by the Folgers from the bookseller A. H. Mayhew in Feb. of 1915. The work was obtained by Mayhew from the Sphere publishers. (case 645).
Published work: The sphere. Vol. xliv, no.608. London : Sept. 16, 1911.
Title taken from caption on printed version of picture which continues 'The usurping King affrighted by the ghost of Banquo at the feast'. Macbeth is pictured right of center looking at the ghost who is pictured seated on the throne next to a standing Lady Macbeth. Drawing is signed and has pencil notes in the margin and is stamped on verso 'The Sphere'.
Artist: Matania is noted as a historical and battle painter. He was on the staff of the London magazine The sphere and became Special Artist for that magazine in 1914. He was elected RI in 1917. His stlye is noted by Houfe as being 'heroic rather than realistic'. (FSL has 5 other drawings of Matania's ills. for the Sphere).
History: Drawing was published as the center spread for the Sept. 16 1911 (Vol. xlvi, no.608) issue of The sphere p.294-295. FSL has a copy of the magazine in ART Flat a16 no.15.
Subject: The bottom caption of the printed copy of the drawing reads: 'Sir Herbert Tree Apostrophising the Ghost of Banquo, Represented by A Clever Arrangement of Lighting and Not by a Living Actor, Macbeth: Avaunt! and quit my sight ... Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act III, Sc. 4'. The play was produced by Tree at His Majesty's Theatre and starred Tree as Macbeth and Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Macbeth (also pictured in this drawing).
Provenance: Item was purchased by the Folgers from the bookseller A. H. Mayhew in Feb. of 1915. The work was obtained by Mayhew from the Sphere publishers. (case 645).
Published work: The sphere. Vol. xliv, no.608. London : Sept. 16, 1911.
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
ART Box M425 no.6 (size XL)