Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Title:
Scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I"
Date:
1746
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 28 1/2 inches (91.4 x 72.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in black paint, lower left: "Max. Laroon. | Fe. 1746."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.410
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
men | knights | woman | oval | disease | food | drinking glass | tankard | swords | tavern | jerkin | shield | wine | nose | drunk | obese | literary theme | plays by William Shakespeare | Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)

Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)

The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 33, 80, no. 89, 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. 140-141, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, pp. 24-25, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)

Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, p. 50, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp.106,108, fig. 29, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 43, 92, no. 57, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:895