Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British
Title:
Virgilia and Volumnia Plead with Coriolanus
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash with gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 12 1/8 inches (29.8 x 30.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.3549
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
literary theme | wife | mother | son | boy | men | women | family | soldier | weapon | baldric | helmets | sandals | headdresses | cloak | tunics | palla | stola | lorica | Coriolanus, play by William Shakespeare | play
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. 49, no. 148, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29604