- Title:
John Henderson as Falstaff
- Date:
- 1780
- Medium:
- Gray ink and gray wash with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.3 x 31.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, on back, center: "No 124 (124 scratched out in graphite)"; in graphite, lower center: "1029 Falstaff [PLATE"
Oval collector's mark: Xavier Haas (Lugt 4541)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.631
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actor | breeches | gesturing | literary theme | man | obese | portrait | posing | ruff | shadow | theater (discipline) | tights
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Sir John Falstaff - 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:6761
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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. 41, 84, no. 105, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Suzanne E. May, " Sublime and infernal reveries " : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter, Thesis (Ph.D.) -- John Moores University, Liverpool, 2007 , British Thesis Service, Boston Spa, Wetherby, April 2007, v. 2, pp. 15-16, v.2, fig. 213, NJ18.R65 M39 2007A OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no.33, pl. XXVII, NJ18 R65 S46 [ORBIS]