Children Acting the 'Play Scene' from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene ii
Date:
1863
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 x 26 inches (45.7 x 66 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower right: "C. Hunt | 1863"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
literary theme | costume | games | bottle | woman | man | interior | actors | toys | king (person) | audience | theater (discipline) | musical instruments | boys | music | guards (security) | observers | girls | lovers | gesture | queen (person) | children | glove | parents | chairs | violin | flute | curtains | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare | play
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)Artist as Narrator - Nineteenth Century Narrative Art in England and France (Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2005-09-08 - 2005-12-04)Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24)Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23)Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02)Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08)Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)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. 32, 115, no. 88, 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. 126-127, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)