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unknown artist, Fluellen Forcing Pistol to Eat His Leek, undated
- Title:
Fluellen Forcing Pistol to Eat His Leek
- Additional Title(s):
Pistol, Fluellen and the Leak
France. The English Camp: 'Henry V', Act V, Scene I
- Part Of:
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 14 × 10 1/8 inches (35.6 × 25.7 cm), Sheet: 13 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (34 × 24.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Pistol, Fluellen & Gower : Vide Henry Vth | Pis: Quiet your cudgel, see I eat. | T Smirke"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.60
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armed forces | army | belts | boots | breeches | cap | clubs | cockades | collars | doublets | eating | food | hats | Henry V, Act V, Scene I | Henry V, play by William Shakespeare | leeks | literary theme | men | play | plays by William Shakespeare | plume | revenge | ruff | shoes | soldiers | stockings | swords | tents | vegetables
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Pistol (character in Henry V)
Fluellen (character in Henry V)
Gower (character in Henry V) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9571
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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. 2-3, no. 9, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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