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Title
The grave-digger [graphic] / after Henry Liverseege.
Created/published
ca. 1832.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 46.5 x 36 cm + frame ca. 26 x 22 in.
Associated name
Liverseege, Henry, 1803-1832, artist.
Note
Related works: The original painting was exhibited at the Society of British Artists in 1831 as "The Grave-Digger" (no. 78). It is presumably the painting that sold at Christie's on 23 May 1980, lot 64, which was signed and dated 1830 (oil on panel, 17 x 13 1/4 in.). A smaller, unsigned version (oil on canvas, 11 3/16 x 8 3/4 in.) is in the Manchester City Art Gallery. A copy of the picture signed "Thos Webster," deaccessioned by the Yale Center for British Art, was sold at Sotheby on 18 November 1981, lot 149 (oil on board, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.)
Engravings after original: John Charles Bromley, 1 November 1832, entitled "The Grave-Diggers," 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (ART Vol. f18); an undated engraving marked "J. Andrews diredt." and "E. Hobart Sc.," 5 13/16 x 4 13/16 in. (image) (ART File S528h1, no. 60, pt. 2); a photograph of the above was published in 1900 in the Connoisseur Edition of the Shakespeare Rare Print Collection, issued for subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare, part 9, no. 8 (ART Vol. e58). This print is wrongly captioned, "From a painting by E. Hobart".
Title from Pressly.
Engravings after original: John Charles Bromley, 1 November 1832, entitled "The Grave-Diggers," 10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (ART Vol. f18); an undated engraving marked "J. Andrews diredt." and "E. Hobart Sc.," 5 13/16 x 4 13/16 in. (image) (ART File S528h1, no. 60, pt. 2); a photograph of the above was published in 1900 in the Connoisseur Edition of the Shakespeare Rare Print Collection, issued for subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare, part 9, no. 8 (ART Vol. e58). This print is wrongly captioned, "From a painting by E. Hobart".
Title from Pressly.
Source of acquisition
P. W. Holoway, Fine Art Dealer and Specialist Restorer of Prints, Drawings, Etc., 336B King's Rd., Chelsea, London SW3, June 1927, bought as by Robert Smirke.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth" (no catalogue), as by Smirke.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 46
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb44
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb44 (rack B-1A)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1701