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Date
Eighteenth century
Location
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Media format
Image
Extent
1 painting on canvas (oval canvas attached to a rectangular one)
Language
Undetermined
Size
76.2 x 65 cm +
Genre
Art
Reference IDs
Piper, David. Notes of Shakespeare Portraits at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, made November 1962 [typescript]: no. 2
Folger bibliographic ID: 128697
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: 155
Folger call number: FPs7
Folger holdings ID: 230203
Accession Number: cs1209
Folger bibliographic ID: 128697
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: 155
Folger call number: FPs7
Folger holdings ID: 230203
Accession Number: cs1209
Notes
Bibliographic format
sight
General notes
Sold by Barrett, American Art Association, instituted 1883, Madison Ave., 56th and 57th streets, New York; 6 E. 23rd St. [1911], 12 April 1922, lot 752, as "very old and finely executed portrait, said to be the world's best portrait of Shakespeare,'" repr Provenance: Charles F. Gunther, Chicago; bought from his estate by Oliver R. Barrett, Chicago Title from Pressly
Subjects
Related names
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
former owner: Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920
former owner: Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950
former owner: Gunther, Charles Frederick, 1837-1920
former owner: Barrett, Oliver R. (Oliver Roger), 1873-1950