Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gilbert Stuart Newton, 1794–1835, British
Title:
Shylock and Jessica from the 'Merchant of Venice,' II, ii
Date:
1830
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 x 29 1/2 inches (88.9 x 74.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "G.S. Newton"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.3
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
pouch | scissors | purse | costume | hat | man | woman | theater (discipline) | interior | merchant | room | keys | stairs | literary theme | The Merchant of Venice, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Turner and Venice (Tate Britain, 2003-10-09 - 2004-01-11)

Turner and Venice (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-02-15 - 2004-05-30)

' Art on the Line ' : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 (The Courtauld Gallery, 2001-10-17 - 2002-01-20)

Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
"NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART AT LEEDS : BRITISH LIVING PAINTERS IN GALLERY E THIRTEENTH NOTICE", Manchester Guardian, 1868, Aug 26, 1868, Available online : ProQuest Historical Newspapers

A handbook to the gallery of British paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian, , Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, p. 82, N5056 M6 H3 1857 (YCBA) Available in YCBA Rare Books & Manuscripts

Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 286, V 0909 (YCBA)

Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 35-6, 119, no. 93, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)

Catalogue of the art treasures of the United Kingdom : collected at Manchester in 1857, Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, p. 90, no. 285, N5056 .M35 M25 1857 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 172-173, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Elizabeth A. Pergam, The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 : entrepreneurs, connoisseurs and the public, , Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT, 2011, p. 48, fn..., No. 285 in AT Ex, N5056 M35 P47 2011 (YCBA)

David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout No. 129, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA)

The Companion to a Walk Through the Art Exhibition of Paintings and Engravings at Old Trafford Palace, A. Ireland and Co., Manchester : UK, 1857, p. 82, no. 285, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t10p4pj8s&view=1up&seq=1
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:214