Falstaff impersonating the king [graphic].
1840
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Title
Falstaff impersonating the king [graphic].
Created/published
ca. 1840s.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 10 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (26 x 31 cm) + frame ca. 18.5 x 20 in.
Material base
canvas
Note
Title from Pressly.
Source of acquisition
Edwin Parsons, Fine Art Dealer and Publisher, 5 Amersham Rd., Putney, London SW15 [1927], September 1928, £22.10.0, as by Sir Robert Kerr Porter (bought at same time as Shylock, no. 102, and Hamilton, no. D29). Entitled in the Folger files "Falstaff at Boar's Head Tavern."
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Henry IV" (no catalogue), 1959, as "Falstaff at the Boar's Head Tavern" by Porter.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 99
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Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa45 (rack D-2A)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1838