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- Title:
Shakespeare in His Study
- Date:
- 1859
- Medium:
- Mezzotint, stipple engraving, etching, and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 24 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches (62.6 x 46.1 cm), Image: 21 x 15 1/16 inches (53.3 x 38.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "[...] Shakespeare | 6 | 35-"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "PAINTED BY JOHN FAED R. S. A."; lower center: "London, Published by Henry Graves & Compy. June 20th. 1859; Printsellers to the Queen ___ 6 Pall Mall. | Shakespeare in his Study. | Dedicated to the People of the United States of America. | Philadelphia Published by J. S. Earle & Son June 20th. 1859; & Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."; lower right: "ENGRAVED BY JAMES FAED."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.134
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | bookcase | books | bookshelves | breeches | brocade | chairs | collar | costume | cuffs (clothing) | curtains | doublet | hat | inkwell | interior | man | mustache | paper | portrait | quill | relief | rosettes | stockings | stool | study (room) | table | velvet
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25377
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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, p. 18, no. 47, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]