Pieter van Bleeck, 1700–1764, Dutch, active in Britain (from 1723), Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia, ca. 1755
- Title:
- Mrs. Cibber as Cordelia
- Date:
- ca. 1755
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 15 1/16 x 20 9/16 inches (38.3 x 52.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.8
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.8FR
- Subject Terms:
- actors | costume | King Lear, play by William Shakespeare | literary theme | men | night | performance | running | theater (discipline) | wind | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Cibber [née Arne], Susannah Maria (1714–1766), actress and singer
Cordelia (character in King Lear) - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:251
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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. 4-5, no. 14, 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. 24-25, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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