Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
George Romney, 1734–1802, British
Title:
John Henderson as Falstaff
Date:
1780
Materials & Techniques:
Gray ink and gray wash with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.3 x 31.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, on back, center: "No 124 (124 scratched out in graphite)"; in graphite, lower center: "1029 Falstaff [PLATE"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1979.12.631
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
gesturing | posing | literary theme | obese | man | theater (discipline) | actor | shadow | ruff | breeches | tights | portrait
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, pp. 41, 84, no. 105, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)

Suzanne E. May, " Sublime and infernal reveries " : George Romney and the creation of an eighteenth-century history painter, Thesis (Ph.D.) -- John Moores University, Liverpool, 2007 , British Thesis Service, Boston Spa, Wetherby, April 2007, v. 2, pp. 15-16, v.2, fig. 213, NJ18.R65 M39 2007A OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Smith College Museum of Art, The drawings of George Romney ; an exhibition held from May to September 1962 at the Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton, Mass., Northampton, MA, 1962, cat. no.33, pl. XXVII, NJ18 R65 S46
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6761