- Title:
- David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy in "Romeo and Juliet", Act V, Scene iii
- Date:
- 1753
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 54 5/8 x 72 1/2 inches (138.7 x 184.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "B Wison Pinxit 1756"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.29
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.29FR
- Subject Terms:
- actor | actors | actress | architectural subject | barrel vault | bed | bow (costume accessory) | cenotaphs | costume | forest | light | literary theme | lovers | man | meeting | moon | night | performance | romance | romantic | Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | tomb | tragedy | vial | vine | wig | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Bellamy, George Anne (ca. 1731–1788), actress
Garrick, David (1717–1779), actor and playwright - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:237
- 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. 56-7, 80, no. 162, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Lance Bertelsen, David Garrick and English Painting, Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 11, Spring 1978, pp. 320-324, fig. 4, NX452 E54 11 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Lance Bertelsen, David Garrick and English Painting, Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 11, Spring 1978, pp. 320-324, fig. 4, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2738195 [Website]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 250-251, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Iain Mackintosh, The Georgian Playhouse : actors, artists, audiences, and architecture 1730-1830, , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1975, p. 27, cat. 40, PN2594 +G46 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Leonee Ormond, Shakespeare in Art, Burlington Magazine, vol. 145, July 2003, p. 532, N1 B87 + 145:1204 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, fig. 59, pp. 66-67, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
William L. Pressly, A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library : "as imagination bodies forth", Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993, p. 188, fig. 67, PR2933 F64 P7 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
William L. Pressly, Joseph Wright of Derby's "Miravan breaking open the tomb of his ancestors" : Variations on an Arabian Tale, British Art Journal, vol. 2, Autumn 2000, p. 18-19, fig. 6, N6761 +B74 2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stuart Sillars, Painting Shakespeare : The Artist as a Critic, 1720-1820, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006, p. 75, fig. 5, PR2883 S55 2006 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sidney Vauncez, More Play Reviews : Old Vic Toast to the King of English Theatre, The Stage and Television Today, London, 4 October 1979, p.12, Available Online via Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (ProQuest) [ORBIS]
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