Edward Alcock, active 1750–ca. 1778, British, Portia and Shylock, from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", IV, i, ca. 1778
- Title:
- 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
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.1FR
- Subject Terms:
- actors | costume | disguise | lace | lawyers | literary theme | man | performance | playwright | red | scroll (information artifact) | shadow | The Merchant of Venice, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | trial | wig | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Portia (character in The Merchant of Venice)
Shylock (character in The Merchant of Venice) - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:212
- Export:
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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, pp. 3, 85, no. 11, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]
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