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- Title:
David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii
- Date:
- 1753
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "B Wison Pinxit 1756"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.29
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.29FR
- Subject Terms:
- actor | actors | actress | architectural subject | barrel vault | bed | bow (costume accessory) | cenotaphs | costume | forest | light | literary theme | lovers | man | meeting | moon | night | performance | romance | romantic | Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | tomb | tragedy | vial | vine | wig | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Bellamy, George Anne (ca. 1731–1788), actress
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright - 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:237
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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