Falstaff reviewing his recruits [graphic] / by Francis Hayman.
1760
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Title
Falstaff reviewing his recruits [graphic] / by Francis Hayman.
Created/published
1760s.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 101.6 x 123 cm (Original remaining canvas), 40 3/4 x 49 3/16 in. (present size of lining)
Associated name
Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
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. 8, FSL (the engraving after the drawing reverses the image); oil on canvas, early to mid-1760s (?), 39 1/4 x 49 1/4 in., National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; print after missing oil on canvas, engraved by W.W. Ryland and published 25 March 1776; drawing, black chalk with white highlights on buff paper, early to mid-1760s(?), 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Paulson 1982, pp. 42, 47, 157, n. 40, repr. p. 184 (pl. 23), as present location unknown; Brian Allen, Francis Hayman, exhibition catalogue, 1987, pp. 22-23, 145, 179 (no. 142), repr. p. 21.
Provenance
Provenance: Col. W.B. Molony; his sale, Puttick and Simpson, 47 Lecester Sq., London [1927], 18 March 1927, lot 25, as by Fuseli; bought from Thomas, $50 (Thomas, who has not yet been identified, may have been acting as Folger's agent at the sale)
Exhibited
Exhibited: Possibly the version exhibited in London at the Society of Artists in 1765, no. 49; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Henry IV" (no catalogue), 1959, as by Fuseli (?)
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 37
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa35
Folger-specific note
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