The play scene from "Hamlet" [graphic] / by Francis Hayman.
1745
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Title
The play scene from "Hamlet" [graphic] / by Francis Hayman.
Created/published
ca. 1745.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 34.8 x 30 cm
Associated name
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Versions: Drawing, pen and ink and gray wash, for Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition of The Works of William Shakespeare, ca. 1740-41, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in., interleaved in vol. 6, FSL (the engraving after the drawing does not reverse the image); oil on canvas executed for Jonathan Tyers for the Prince of Wales's Pavilion at Vauxhall Gardens, ca. 1745, location unknown; oil on canvas, ca. 1745, location unknown, repr. Merchant 1959, pl. 8a, sometiomes identified as the Vauxhall picture.
See Pressly Catalogue, no. 36.
Title from Pressly.
See Pressly Catalogue, no. 36.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Merchant, "Hayman's Illustrations of Shakespeare," Shakespeare Quarterly 9 (Spring 1958) p. 145, repr.; Merchant 1959, p. 47, repr.; Kalman A. Burnim, "Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Illustrations in the Light of Contemporary Documents," Theatre Notebook 14 (Winter 1959-60), p. 54; Paulson 1982, p. 63; Karen Newman, "Hayman's Missing Hamlet," Shakespeare Quarterly 34 (Spring 1983), pp. 77-78, repr.
Source of acquisition
A.L. Betts, 98 Sutherland Ave., Maida Vale, London W9, June 1927, £32.
Exhibited
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; London, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, Francis Hayman, 1987, no. 38.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 36
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa36
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa36
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1688