COLLECTION NAME:
LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection
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FOLGERCM1~6~6
LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection
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Digital Image File Name:
3039
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3039
Digital Image File Name
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Source Call Number:
FPa82
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FPa82
Source Call Number
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Source Creator:
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
author
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
Source Creator
false
Image Title:
Benjamin West. King Lear and Cordelia (King Lear IV.vii). Oil on canvas, 1793
Source Title:
King Lear and Cordelia [graphic] / B. West, 1793.
cd_title
King Lear and Cordelia [graphic] / B. West, 1793.
Source Title
false
Image Details:
from a 4x5 color transparency
special_instructions
from a 4x5 color transparency
Image Details
false
Source Created or Published:
1793
imprint
1793
Source Created or Published
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Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
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FSL collection
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HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
bib_creator
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist.
Creator (Hamnet)
false
Title (Hamnet):
King Lear and Cordelia [graphic]. B. West, 1793.
bib_title
King Lear and Cordelia [graphic]. B. West, 1793.
Title (Hamnet)
false
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1793.
bib_creation_date
1793.
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet)
false
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 19 x 23 9/16 in. (48.1 x 59.9 cm.)
bib_physicaldescription
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 19 x 23 9/16 in. (48.1 x 59.9 cm.)
Physical Description (Hamnet)
false
Subject (Hamnet):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Act IV. Scene 7 -- Illustrations.
bib_subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Act IV. Scene 7 -- Illustrations.
Subject (Hamnet)
false
Subject (Hamnet):
Paintings. gmgpc
bib_subject
Paintings. gmgpc
Subject (Hamnet)
false
Subject (Hamnet):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Cordelia.
bib_subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Cordelia.
Subject (Hamnet)
false
Subject (Hamnet):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- King Lear.
bib_subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- King Lear.
Subject (Hamnet)
false
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Kennedy, Willoughby Pitcairn, d. 1928, former owner.
bib_associated_name
Kennedy, Willoughby Pitcairn, d. 1928, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet)
false
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Bowles, George, of Wanstead, d. 1817, former owner.
bib_associated_name
Bowles, George, of Wanstead, d. 1817, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
bib_object_notes
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
"A Correct Catalogue of the works of Benjamin West, Esq.," La Belle Assemblee or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808), Supplement, p. 19 ("The Grecian Daughter defending her father from the tyrant-Its companion, the Couch scene of King Lear and his Daughter," painted for Mr. Bowles of Wanstead); John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work, San Antonio, 1977, p. 188, no. 497; Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 276, no. 215.
bib_object_notes
"A Correct Catalogue of the works of Benjamin West, Esq.," La Belle Assemblee or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808), Supplement, p. 19 ("The Grecian Daughter defending her father from the tyrant-Its companion, the Couch scene of King Lear and his Daughter," painted for Mr. Bowles of Wanstead); John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work, San Antonio, 1977, p. 188, no. 497; Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 276, no. 215.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Condition reviewed the paint surface has been solvent-abraded, and there is extensive repaint, particularly in the drapery at the top, in the figures of the two women at the left, and in the separation cracks
bib_object_notes
Condition reviewed the paint surface has been solvent-abraded, and there is extensive repaint, particularly in the drapery at the top, in the figures of the two women at the left, and in the separation cracks
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Conserved 19760000 original canvas lined at some early date and 1976
bib_object_notes
Conserved 19760000 original canvas lined at some early date and 1976
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Related studies: Von Erffa and Staley mention that West's son Benjamin sold a drawing entitled "King Lear and Cordelia" in 1839; one drawing of this subject, dated 1783, is in the British Museum and another is in the Toledo Museum of Art. A related composition is found in three drawings entitled "Esau selling his Birthright for A Dish of Pottage" in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
bib_object_notes
Related studies: Von Erffa and Staley mention that West's son Benjamin sold a drawing entitled "King Lear and Cordelia" in 1839; one drawing of this subject, dated 1783, is in the British Museum and another is in the Toledo Museum of Art. A related composition is found in three drawings entitled "Esau selling his Birthright for A Dish of Pottage" in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
bib_object_notes
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Versions: Painting (42 x 56 1/2 in.) ca. 1784, bought by Peter, duke of Courland, Mitau, and Berlin, now unlocated (von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 212) but known from a print by Daniel Berger of 1791; painting owned by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif. (42 1/2 x 57 in.) similar in composition to Berger print, though cropped at edges, repr. in von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 213; painting (18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.) unlocated, von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 214, presumably the image reproduced in Richard Earlom's mezzotint of 1 January 1799 (18 x 22 15/16 in.)
bib_object_notes
Versions: Painting (42 x 56 1/2 in.) ca. 1784, bought by Peter, duke of Courland, Mitau, and Berlin, now unlocated (von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 212) but known from a print by Daniel Berger of 1791; painting owned by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif. (42 1/2 x 57 in.) similar in composition to Berger print, though cropped at edges, repr. in von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 213; painting (18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.) unlocated, von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 214, presumably the image reproduced in Richard Earlom's mezzotint of 1 January 1799 (18 x 22 15/16 in.)
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Title from Pressly.
bib_object_notes
Title from Pressly.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Notes (Hamnet):
Engravings: Richard Earlom, published in 1799, after one of the earlier versions.
bib_object_notes
Engravings: Richard Earlom, published in 1799, after one of the earlier versions.
Notes (Hamnet)
false
Provenance (Hamnet):
Provenance: Painted for George Bowles (died 1817) of Wanstead (this information is derived from a printed label in the middle of the upper portion of the back of the frame: "B. West, P.R.A., 1792 [inaccurate date] / The Death of King Lear [inaccurate] / 19 in. by 24 in. / Engraved in Boydell's edition of Shakespeare [inaccurate] / From the Wanstead House Collection"); in the collection of Lt. Col. Willoughby Pitcairn Kennedy, who retired in 1906 to Lynedoch, W. Byfleet, Surrey, and died on 7 August 1928 (this information is derived from a label on lined paper in pen and ink at the lower left of the back of the frame: "No. 16. Drawing room / Death of King Lear by / B. West R.A. / Propt. Col. W. P. Kennedy"). Purchased by Folger from Newman F. McGirr, Rare Books, Prints, Autographs and Paintings, 10 S. 18th St. Room 211, Philadelphia, September 1929, $540.
bib_provenance
Provenance: Painted for George Bowles (died 1817) of Wanstead (this information is derived from a printed label in the middle of the upper portion of the back of the frame: "B. West, P.R.A., 1792 [inaccurate date] / The Death of King Lear [inaccurate] / 19 in. by 24 in. / Engraved in Boydell's edition of Shakespeare [inaccurate] / From the Wanstead House Collection"); in the collection of Lt. Col. Willoughby Pitcairn Kennedy, who retired in 1906 to Lynedoch, W. Byfleet, Surrey, and died on 7 August 1928 (this information is derived from a label on lined paper in pen and ink at the lower left of the back of the frame: "No. 16. Drawing room / Death of King Lear by / B. West R.A. / Propt. Col. W. P. Kennedy"). Purchased by Folger from Newman F. McGirr, Rare Books, Prints, Autographs and Paintings, 10 S. 18th St. Room 211, Philadelphia, September 1929, $540.
Provenance (Hamnet)
false
Citations (Hamnet):
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 84
bib_citation
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 84
Citations (Hamnet)
false