James Quin as Falstaff [graphic] / attributed to James McArdell.
1750
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa41
Details
Title
James Quin as Falstaff [graphic] / attributed to James McArdell.
Created/published
ca. 1750.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 21 x 15 1/2 in. (53.3 x 40 cm)
Associated name
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Inscribed on paper at lower left: "Capon 2.4 / Sack 7.0 / Bread .1/2".
Version: What was described as "an amateur copy" either after the Folger picture or McArdell's mezzotint was owned by the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre by 1964. It was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet on 15 January 1976, lot 142.
Title from Pressly.
Version: What was described as "an amateur copy" either after the Folger picture or McArdell's mezzotint was owned by the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre by 1964. It was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet on 15 January 1976, lot 142.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
New York, 1964, mentioned in entry no. 41 as by McArdell; Highfill 1973-, vol. 12, p. 241 (no. 16), as by McArdell.
Source of acquisition
John Anderson, Jr., opened a small auction house under his own name in 1900 at 34 W. 30th St., New York, March 1911, $150, as by Hayman (receipt is in C Deck correspondence)
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 118
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa41
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa41
Folger-specific note
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