Watercolor with black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 5/16 inches (17.4 x 21.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, within image, upper left: "Cock a doodle doo"; in graphite, upper center: "1807(?)"; lower left: "JCR(?)"; lower center: "Hamlet _ and the Ghost | a popular song"; on back, upper center: "1810"; on back, upper right: "2. deep(?) | [2 squares]; in black ink, on back, upper right: "11 x 13"; on back, center left, written sideways: "20 (encircled) | 01Ø (underlined)"; on back, center right: "2 (encircled) | 1840 | 1030 | 4 (encircled)"; on back, lower left: "Starter(?) from | Autograph di | Art[...]"; on back, lower right: "LE(?)/V | 9610 (underlined)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.1.36
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
loincloth | helmet | cape | sashes (costume accessories) | costume | ruff | spurs (accessories worn) | gloves | gesture | battle | castle | cuffs (costume components) | smoke | armor | bushes | rooster | ghost | fighting | dragon | literary theme | Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV | plays by William Shakespeare
Associated Places:
Kronborg Castle | Europe | Denmark | Frederiksborg | Elsinore
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. 15, 116, no. 41, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)