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- Title:
The Seven Ages of Man: Second Childishness, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
- Former Title(s):
The seven ages of man, from Shakespeare 7th----- "The last scene of all,/ That ends this strange eventful history,/Is second childishness and mere oblivion,/ Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing." [1798, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1798 and 1801
- Medium:
- Pen and ink and oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.14
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.14FR
- Subject Terms:
- actors | As You Like It, play by William Shakespeare | book | boy | cards | chairs | child | costume | crutches | elderly | furniture | interior | literary theme | man | medicine | musical instruments | paintings | performance | play | reading | room | science | skeleton | theater (discipline) | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Cupid - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:224
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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. 44, 100, no. 117, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 206-207, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robin Simon, Shakespeare, Hogarth, and Garrick : plays, paintings and performances, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2023, p. 177, fig. 186, N8252 .S56 2023 (YCBA) Oversize [YCBA]