The Seven Ages of Man: The Lover, 'As You Like It,' II, vii
Date:
between 1798 and 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
15 x 19 7/8 inches (38.1 x 50.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower center: “[...] | Old and Modern Masters. | 14, Old Bond Street, London, W.1. | Telegrams: Colnaghi, Piccy, London | Telephone: Hyde Park 1943-44.”; lower right: “Smirke exhibited [italics] The Seven Ages of Man, [non italics] R.A. 1798, | No. 88, but Graves, [italics] The Royal Academy Exhibitors 1769- | 1904, [non italics] Vol. VII, p. 163, suggests the possibility that it was | not this set, but the subjects painted again in one picture.”; lower left: “Plastic | [handwritten in red] 662 | [typed] Varnish”; upper left: “No. 60783 | Frame”; upper left: “No. 60783 | [handwritten] K ([yped] Picture [handwritten] 72”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.10
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
literary theme | performance | chairs | letter | curtains | light | lover | paintings | angels | man | writing (processes) | morning | night | costume | interior | theater (discipline) | table | actor | bedroom | sword | balcony | As You Like It, play by William Shakespeare
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. 44, 99, no. 113, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 206-207, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Rosie Dias, Exhibiting Englishness, John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the formation of a national aesthetic , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2013, p. 198, N72.N38 D53 2013 (YCBA)Winifred H. Friedman, Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, New York, 1976, p.235, PR2833 .B553 F7 1976 (LC)Naysan Mojgani, The Performative Image and the Power of the Audience: Shakespeare in Visual Art [PhD Dissertation, University of California, San Diego], San Diego, CA, 2015, p.134, fig. 3.9, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalRoyal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of the Royal Academy 1798 : the thirtieth, London, p. 6, no. 88, N5054 A53 29-49The Boydell Shakespeare Prints, B. Blom, New York, no. XLII, PR2883 +B63The Shakespeare Gallery : [a reproduction commemorative of the tercentenary anniversary, MDCCCLXIV], Accessed January 18, 2023, p. 103, no. XXVI, Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineWilliam Shakespeare 1564-1964: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures in the Collections of the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy, Knoedler Gallery, Stratford, CT, p.25, no.60-66, PR2883 A43