Isabella appealing to Angelo [graphic] / Wm. Hamilton RA 1793.
1793
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa30
Details
Title
Isabella appealing to Angelo [graphic] / Wm. Hamilton RA 1793.
Created/published
1793.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 166.3 x 135 cm
Associated name
Hamilton, William, 1751-1801, artist.
Shakespeare Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), former owner.
Shakespeare Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Signed and dated at lower right: "Wm. Hamilton RA 1793".
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
St. James Chronicle, 28-30 January 1794, p. 4 (this and the companion picture described as "very excellent"); Hamlyn 1978, pp. 527, 529.
Engravings: J. Fit[t]ler, published on 1 August 1794 by Mr. Woodmason, London, 8x 9 5/8 in. (image)
Engravings: J. Fit[t]ler, published on 1 August 1794 by Mr. Woodmason, London, 8x 9 5/8 in. (image)
Provenance
Provenance: Commissioned by James Woodmason for his Irish Shakespeare Gallery, which opened on 1 May 1793. Painted for the Woodmason Gallery.
Source of acquisition
Walpole Galleries, Rare Books, Letters and Manuscripts, 10 E. 49th St., New York, April 1925, $165.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Irish Shakespeare Gallery, Whistler's Great Room, Exchequer Street, no. XXII; New Shakespeare Gallery, Schomberg House, 88 Pall Mall, no. XXII; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 32 (Plate 7)
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa30
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa30
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1373