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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3664
People
William Sharp, British (1749 - 1824)
After Benjamin West, American (Springfield, PA 1738 - 1820 London, England)
Title
King Lear: Act III, Scene 4
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Shakespeare's King Lear
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1792
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279245

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
undesc (before i)/v
Standard Reference Number
Baker 33

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3664
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Harvard University Art Museums/ Harvard University Press, Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America (Cambridge, MA, 1986), p. 230, fig. 22

Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/01/2017 - 02/28/2018

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