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Creator:
Sir John Gilbert, 1817–1897
Title:

Apotheosis of Shakespeare's Characters

Date:
1871
Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on wood panel
Dimensions:
Sheet: 41 x 28 inches (104.1 x 71.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "John Gilbert A R A | 1871.2"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.1.51
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
apotheosis | armor | baskets | beards | capes (outerwear) | children | costume | crowns (costume components) | donkey | fire | gesture | glorification | infants | kings (people) | knife (weapon) | literary theme | men | obese | putti | relief | robes | scepters | shepherds | shields | spears (weapons) | tricking | tunics | women
Associated People:
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Iago (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
Arthur I (1187–1203), duke of Brittany
characters
Shakespearean fool
Perdita (character in The Winter's Tale)
Puck (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Portia (character in The Merchant of Venice)
Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland
Wolsey, Thomas (1470/71–1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal
Henry IV (1367–1413), king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
King Lear (character in King Lear)
Shylock (character in The Merchant of Venice)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Caliban (The Tempest)
Prospero (character in The Tempest)
Ariel (character in The Tempest)
Miranda (character in The Tempest)
Mistress Ford (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
Desdemona (character in Othello)
Sir John Falstaff
Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Mistress Page (character in The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10103
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 20, 126, no. 51, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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