As You Like It, Act IV, Scene III
1798
Artist, British, active 1750 - 1794
William Charles Wilson, after Raphael Lamar West
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored etching with engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler
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Dimensions
plate: 49.6 × 62.9 cm (19 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)
sheet: 52.3 × 66.4 cm (20 9/16 × 26 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.53.53
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Weschler's Auctions, Washington, D.C., date unknown); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Painted by Raphael West. / Oli, Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age... / ...Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach'd; lower center in plate: SHAKSPEARE. / As you like it / ACT IV. SCENE III. / A forest. Orlando and Oliver / Pubd. Decr. 1. 1798, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.; lower right in plate: The opening of his mouth: but suddenly ... / ...When that the sleeping man should stir.
Wikidata ID
Q77259438