James Northcote, 1746–1831, Britishformerly possibly after Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825, Swiss, active in Britain (1766–70; 1779 on)
Title:
Macbeth and the Witches
Date:
between 1777 and 1778
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (32.4 x 41.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower right: "149"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center left: "37"; inscribed on verso, lower right: "NORTHCOTE, J. | MACBETH AND THE WITCHES"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.15.2
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
figure study | bones | cauldron | spear | capes | skulls | cave | skeletons | man | women | witches | magic | gesturing | literary theme | owls | pointing | Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare | plays by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 37, 106, no. 97, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Mark (Andrew Mark), Ledbury, James Northcote, history painting, and the Fables, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 34, 35, fig. 24, NJ18.N79 L43 2014 (YCBA)Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, p. 63, fig. 29, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp. 126-27, fig. 35, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 100, no. 100, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)