Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i
Date:
ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
26 x 20 inches (66 x 50.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in ocher-color paint, lower left: "E Alcock pinx"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | wig | scroll (information artifact) | man | woman | theater (discipline) | performance | trial | shadow | red | actors | playwright | lawyers | disguise | lace | literary theme | The Merchant of Venice, play 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)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 3, 85, no. 11, 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. 14-15, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)