Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British, Arviragus, Bearing Imogen as Dead in his Arms, 'Cymbeline', Act IV, Scene II, 1780
- Title:
- Arviragus, Bearing Imogen as Dead in his Arms, 'Cymbeline', Act IV, Scene II
- Former Title(s):
- Cymbeline
- Date:
- 1780
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with brown ink and scraping over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 14 5/8 x 16 9/16 inches (37.1 x 42 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 12 3/16 x 14 7/16 inches (31 x 36.7 cm), Sheet: 10 15/16 x 13 3/16 inches (27.8 x 33.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center, on mount: "Arv: The bird is dead | That we have made so much on! I had rather | Have skipt from sixteen years of age to sixty; | And turn'd my leaping time into a crutch, | Then have seen this~"; lower right, on mount: "Cymbeline, act 4th"
Signed and dated in brown ink, lower left, on mount: "M H 1780"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1981
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- brothers | carrying | cave | cloaks | cross-dressing | Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II | Cymbeline, play by William Shakespeare | dead | fur | grass | literary theme | plays by William Shakespeare | sandals | sister | slippers | spear | trees
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Belarius (Morgan)
Arviragus (Cadwal)
Guiderius (Polydore)
Imogen (character in Cymbeline) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9826
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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. 30, no. 84, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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