Valentine rescuing Silvia from Proteus, from Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act V, Scene 4, the Outlaws' Cave
Date:
1792
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
65 1/2 x 52 1/2 inches (166.4 x 133.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "F Wheatley 1792"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.131
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
mountain | men | comedy | theater (discipline) | cave | gesture | love | costume | disguise | literary theme | lovers | women | The Two Gentlemen of Verona, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)Francis Wheatley (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-08-31 - 2006-02-05)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)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
A brush with Shakespeare, the bard in painting, 1780-1910 , Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, 1985, pp. 8-9, fig. 10, PR2883 B78 oversize (YCBA)Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 55, 96, no. 160, 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. 246-247, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 72, ND466 G67 (YCBA)