The Seven Ages of Man: The Justice, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower center: “[handwritten, underlined] The Seven Ages of Man, from Shakespeare. | Oil Painting by Richard Smirke R.A. | (1752-1825) | 1 of a set of | seven [...] | [En?]graved for | Boydell’s | Gallery | [typed] P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. | (Established 1760.) | [...] and Dealers | Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings | By the | Old And Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telegrams: Colnaghi, Piccy, London | Telephone: Hyde Park 1943-44.”; upper left: “No. 60782 | Frame”; upper left: “No. 60781 | [handwritten] K [typed] Picture [handwritten] 77”; lower right: “Smirke exhibited [italics] The Seven Ages of Man, [non italics] R.A. 1798, | No. 88, but Graves, [italics] The Royal Academy Exhibitors 1769- | 1904, [non italics] Vol. VII, p. 163, suggests the possibility that it was | not this set, but the subjects painted again in one picture. | The paintings of the Shakespeare Gallery constituted the | Great Prize in Boydell’s Lottery (28th January, 1805), which | was won by William Tassie (see [italics] The Farington Diary, [non italics] 8th | February, 1805). The whole collection was sold by Tassie | [...].”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.12
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
crying | literary theme | dog (animal) | eyeglasses | tankard | paintings | costume | actors | justice | judge | magistrate | interior | performance | trial | theater (discipline) | women | men | As You Like It, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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, p. 44, no. 115, 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. 206-207, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)