The Murder of Duncan - Macbeth with the Body (and Lady Macbeth Approaching)
Date:
between 1809 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper pasted on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/8 × 5 1/16 inches (11.1 × 12.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.2655
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
attacking | stabbing | literary theme | sleeping | dead | king (person) | shadows | men | guards | figure study | daggers | drapery | bed | murder | The Tragedy of Macbeth | plays 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. 24, no. 63, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)