Arviragus, Bearing Imogen as Dead in his Arms, 'Cymbeline', Act IV, Scene II
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)
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"
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:
cross-dressing | literary theme | dead | carrying | sandals | slippers | cloaks | spear | fur | sister | brothers | cave | grass | trees | Cymbeline, play by William Shakespeare | plays by William Shakespeare | Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II
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, p. 30, no. 84, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)