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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb42
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Title
John Henderson as Macbeth [graphic] / George Romney.
Created/published
[ca. 1787]
Description
1 painting : oil on engraving mounted on canvas ; 16 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. + frame ca. 22 x 25.5 in.
Associated name
Romney, George, 1734-1802, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Related works: See Pressly Catalogue, pp. 225-226.
Engravings after original: John Jones, 19 May 1787, 16 1/8 x 19 3/4 in., first state in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (c.s.37), published with full inscription on 1 December 1787. Smaller engravings also appeared: J. Hopwood's print to "The Cabinet," 1807; Ino Kennerly's print to Oxberry's "Dramatic Biography," 1826; and one published by GEbbie and Husson Co. Ltd. in 1888.
Title from Pressly.
Engravings after original: John Jones, 19 May 1787, 16 1/8 x 19 3/4 in., first state in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (c.s.37), published with full inscription on 1 December 1787. Smaller engravings also appeared: J. Hopwood's print to "The Cabinet," 1807; Ino Kennerly's print to Oxberry's "Dramatic Biography," 1826; and one published by GEbbie and Husson Co. Ltd. in 1888.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, The Drawings of George Romney, 1962, pp. 26-27, as a small oil sketch that shows the whole of the original composition; Highfill 1973-, vol. 7, p. 262 (no. 39), as a version of the original canvas; Waterloo, 1985, catalogue, p. 62, as a replica on a small scale.
Condition
in a raking light, the ridges of the engraved lines can be clearly seen in many passages of the painting
Source of acquisition
Montmartre Gallery, 39 Wardour St., London W1, October 1927, $50, as "Charles Kean as Macbeth" by Thomas Stothard.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, "The Kemble Family: A Theatrical Dynasty," April-October, 1985, p. 12; Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, "Designs from Fancy: George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings," 1998-1999, no. 30.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 124
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPb42
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb42 (rack 102-B1)
Folger-specific note
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