William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829, British, Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head, ca. 1820
- Title:
- Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (28.1 × 22.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.35
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- apparition | armor | cape | cauldron | clouds | costume | hallucination | head | helmet | literary theme | Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I | man | plays by William Shakespeare | sandals | smoke | snakes | sword | tunic | vision | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Macbeth (character in The Tragedy of Macbeth)
demons
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8442
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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. 13, 109, no. 36, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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