Master Betty as Hamlet, before a Bust of Shakespeare
Date:
between 1804 and 1806
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 x 16 inches (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.5
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
literary theme | step | column (architectural element) | brazier (metalworker) | black | shadow | theater (discipline) | man | smoke | burning | shield | mask | costume | curtain | chalice | incense burner | sculpture | bust | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)Shakespeare in Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2003-02-15 - 2003-06-15)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. 37, 106, no. 96, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 174-175, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Elizabeth A. Fay, Fashioning faces, the portraitive mode in British romanticism , University of New Hampshire Press University Press of New England, Durham, N.H. Hanover, N.H., 2010, pp. 240-41, fig. 5.4, PR457 .F34 2009 (YCBA)Mark (Andrew Mark), Ledbury, James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 118, 120-21, 126, 148, fig. 106, NJ18.N79 L43 2014 (YCBA)Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, pp. 138, 139, 204, no. 40, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp. 212, 213, no. 39, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christina Smylitopoulos, Master Betty, , February 16, 2012, 0 minutes 11 seconds, http://www.youtube.com/v/abHEHjwBEUw