Portrait of Shakespeare [graphic] / TS 1864.
1864
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Title
Portrait of Shakespeare [graphic] / TS 1864.
Created/published
1864.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 51.1 x 44 cm
Associated name
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist.
Woods, Matthew, Dr., former owner.
Sessler, Charles, 1854-1935, former owner.
Woods, Matthew, Dr., former owner.
Sessler, Charles, 1854-1935, former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
The lining of the canvas is annotated in black ink on its back: "Shakespeare / Copied from Engravings / TS 1864." Presumably this annotation repeats information on the back of the original canvas.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Matthew Woods, Rambles of a Physician: or, A Midsummer Dream, Philadelphia, 1889, vol. 1, p. 218, repr. on p. 219 with the following caption: "SULLY'S 'THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR SHAKESPEARE' IN POSSESSION OF THE AUTHOR), PAINTED BY THAT ARTIST FROM HIS COLLECTION OF NEARLY 400 PICTURES OF SHAKESPEARE, AND WHICH HE MAINTAINED 'CONTAINED THE EXCELLENCIES OF ALL, AND THE FAULTS OF NONE'"; Biddle and Fielding 1921, no. 1570.
Provenance
Provenance: By descent to Dr. Matthew Woods, whose family purchased the painting for $3000; sold at auction in Philadelphia for $1100; bought by Sessler $1300 (above information from Sessler correspondence in Folger file)
Source of acquisition
Bought by Folger from Charles Sessler, Importer and Bookseller, 1314 Walnut St., Philadelphia, December 1924, $1500.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Shakespeare's the Thing.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Shakespeare's the Thing.
Washington, DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, May 2017- February 2018. Painting Shakespeare.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 170 (Plate 26)
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa79
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa79
Folger-specific note
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Folger accession
cs1398