[Macbeth confronts Banquo's ghost, act 3, scene 4] [graphic].

[England], [between 1786 and 1792?]

1 drawing : pencil, pen and ink, and ink wash ; sheet 328 x 495 mm, mount 390 x 559 mm

paper

Banquo's ghost stands to viewer's left; Macbeth stands to viewer's right, his arms upraised, with Lady Macbeth holding his right arm.

Title devised by cataloger.

According to Yvonne Romney Dixon, George Romney's earliest sketches of the Banquet scene in Macbeth date to 1786 and he revisited the theme in 1792 in preparation for a never-executed painting for the Boydell Gallery ("Designs from fancy" : George Romney's Shakespearean drawings / by Yvonne Romney Dixon. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library, 1998, p. 186).

Other Romney drawings of the Banquet scene in Macbeth at the Folger Shakespeare Library (several sketches in ART Vol. c59, ART Vol. c60, and ART Vol. b6), the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (L.D. 123, 124, 126 and B.V. 138-40), Yale University (1979.12.203, 1979.12.207, 1979.12.210, 1979.12.212, B1991.8.45), Princeton University (1948.1560, 1565, and 1570).

Stamp of A.A. de Pass ("A de P.") in lower right corner (Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes, 108a).
Alfred de Pass gave this drawing to the Royal Institute of Cornwall, Truro; sold at Christie's, London, 22 February 1966, lot 35 (one of three in lot). With Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 12. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 159.

Purchased at Christie's, London, Sale 6574, "Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer," 10 July 2012, lot 37, along with Romney drawings of the Infant Shakespeare nursed by Comedy and Tragedy (lot 30; now Folger ART 267- 541) and Lady Macbeth (lot 31; now Folger ART 267- 542).

Kendal, England, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1984. George Romney, 1734-1802, no. 24.

Great Britain -- England.

ART 267- 540 (size L)

Purchased with funds from The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund

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