Collection title devised by cataloger
Three of the items have Wright's initials penciled in the bottom right corner on the surface of the drawing and two of these three also have a pencil note identifying the subject, bottom center. Items vary in size but average around 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. Items also vary in degree of completion
History: Several of the drawings are similar in design or subject to finished watercolors by Wright in the FSL collection
Provenance: ART Box W951 no.125-127 were formerly part of ART Inventory 289 (no.68,71,29,31,57(a & b),56) see entry under Wright for 'Masquerade' for provenance information. ART Box W951 no.128,129 were formerly part of ART Inventory 286 (no.22 a&b), see entry under Wright for 'Comedy and tragedy' for provenance information
Subject: Drawings illustrate the following scenes: Merry wives - Falstaff disguised as Mrs. Pratt and an unidentified scene (ART Box W951 no.125,126) ; As you like it - large group scene, unidentified (no.127) ; Taming of the shrew - Act IV, Sc. 3, Katherine beating Grumio (no.128,129) ; Merchant of Venice - Shylock and two other figures (no.130) ; The tempest - unidentified scene, Caliban and Ariel (?) in front of a cave opening (no.131 a & b) and Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand and Ariel (no. 132). Many of this information was derived from notes on backings which have since been removed from drawings. Three of the drawings have pencil sketches for other scenes on their versos (ART Box W951 no.126 and 128 depict Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet, and no.129 is a picture of a person standing in a tree which has been trimmed so that the person is only visible from the waist down)
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Extended title: [Rough drawings (small) for scenes from Shakespeare] [John Massey Wright]
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