The Murder of Duncan - Macbeth with the Body (and Lady Macbeth Approaching)
Date:
between 1809 and 1811
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper pasted on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/8 x 5 1/16in. (11.1 x 12.9cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.2657
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
king (person) | figure study | guards | literary theme | men | drapery | bed | attacking | daggers | stabbing | dead | shadows | sleeping | murder | The Tragedy of Macbeth | plays 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. 23, 108, no. 62, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)