Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, red ink, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 19 1/4 × 29 3/4 inches (48.9 × 75.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "£25"; inscribed in pen, with black ink, verso, lower center: "Malvolio washes off | Gross acquaintance" | (Scene from Twelth Night) | Painted by | Sir john Gilbert"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.1.52
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
surprise | cross-dressing | literary theme | gesture | love | countess | men | woman | steward | feather | columns | arches | railing | steps | fountain | palace | trees | flower (plant) | pendant | shoes | boots | ring | hats | breeches | stockings | dress | capes | belt | doublet | apron | garden | hedges | stool | sword | statues | play | Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV | plays by William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, play by William Shakespeare
Associated Places:
Illyria | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 19-20, 126, no. 50, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)