Hamilton, William. Isabella appealing to Angelo

Folger bibliographic ID: 128574
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: 32 (Plate 7)
Folger call number: FPa30
Folger holdings ID: 230080
Accession Number: cs1373

General notes

Signed and dated at lower right: "Wm. Hamilton RA 1793" Also available as a digital reproduction Walpole Galleries, Rare Books, Letters and Manuscripts, 10 E. 49th St., New York, April 1925, $165 Provenance: Commissioned by James Woodmason for his Irish Shakespeare Gallery, which opened on 1 May 1793. Painted for the Woodmason Gallery Engravings: J. Fit[t]ler, published on 1 August 1794 by Mr. Woodmason, London, 8x 9 5/8 in. (image) Title from Pressly

Publications

St. James Chronicle, 28-30 January 1794, p. 4 (this and the companion picture described as "very excellent"); Hamlyn 1978, pp. 527, 529

Exhibited

Exhibited: Irish Shakespeare Gallery, Whistler's Great Room, Exchequer Street, no. XXII; New Shakespeare Gallery, Schomberg House, 88 Pall Mall, no. XXII; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. Marketing Shakespeare

Extended title: Isabella appealing to Angelo Wm. Hamilton RA 1793

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Measure for measure Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

artist: Hamilton, William, 1751-1801
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
former owner: Shakespeare Gallery (Dublin, Ireland)