(The subject is incorrectly identified in an old photograph of the painting by A. C. Cooper [ART File S528kla, no. 79], which Parsons presumably sent to Folger, as "Merry W. of W."
Title from Pressly.
Source of acquisition
Edwin Parsons, Fine Art Dealer and Publisher, 5 Amersham Rd., Putney, London SW15 [1927], May 1930 £18.
Exhibited
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 6
