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Creator:
Robert Smirke, 1752–1845
Title:
The Seven Ages of Man: The Schoolboy, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Former Title(s):
The seven ages of man, from Shakespeare 2nd --- "And then the whining school-boy, with satchel/ And shining morning face, creeping, like snail,/ Unwillingly to school." [1798, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
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: “[...] | Old and Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telegrams: Colnaghi, Piccy, London | Telephone: Hyde Park 1943-44.”; upper left: “No. 60785 | Frame”; upper left: “No. 60784 | [handwritten] K [typed] Picture [handwritten] 78”

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.9
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1975.5.9FR
Subject Terms:
As You Like It, play by William Shakespeare | bag | boy | costume | cracked | landscape | literary theme | path | pocket | schoolboy | theater (discipline) | tree | walking
Associated People:
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:219
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 44, no. 112, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]


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