1. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 4536 Source Creator Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Image Title Henry Fuseli. Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed head. Oil on canvas with original inscribed frame, 1793 Source Title Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1793 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa27, with frame HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, artist. Title (Hamnet) Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed head [graphic]. Henry Fuseli. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1793. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on canvas : oil ; 167.7 x 134.3 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Macbeth. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth. Act IV. Scene 1 -- Illustrations. Associated Name (Hamnet) Shakespeare Gallery (Dublin, Ireland), former owner. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the paint surface is dry and brittle, and the figure of Macbeth is abraded. The cauldron ends in claw feet, and the leg at the right, as revealed by the pentimento, was originally shown as almost straight Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19790000 a large slash has been repaired between Macbeth's legs. It runs horizontally to the right beginning at the witch's big toe. A puncture has been repaired in Macbeth's left calf. There are repairs as well to the center of the painting and to the left of Macbeth's lower back. The old lining was removed and replaced in 1979 Notes (Hamnet) Engravings: According to Knowles, William Sharpe was in the process of engraving the painting when Woodmason abandoned his project. Sharp's squared working drawings is in the British Museum Print Room (1853-12-10-482) Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: Dublin, Irish Shakespeare Gallery, Whistler's Great Room, Exchequer Street, 1793, no. XII; London, New Shakespeare Gallery, Schomberg House, 88 Pall Mall., 1794-95, no. XII; this or another version of this subject, Royal Academy, 1811, no. 12; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 8; San Francisco, 1979-82, repr. in color p. 170; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) Knowles 1831, vol. 1, pp. 189-90; Schiff 1973, vol. 1, pp. 107, 163, 187, 514 (no. 881); Hamlyn 1978, pp. 521, 526, 527, and 529, repr. pl. 33; Altick 1985, pp. 313-14; Schiff and Weinglass (forthcoming) Notes (Hamnet) Maggs Bros., Rare Books, Prints and Autographs, 34-35 Conduit St., New Bond St., London, December 1922, £50. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Versions: Der bewaffnete Kopf erscheint vor Macbeth, oil painting, 1774-79, schiff 1973, no. 363; two drawings for above, Schiff 1973, nos. 457 and 457a; also see lost works, nos. 27 and 83 (no. 27 refers to the drawing, which is presumably preparatory to the Folger painting, that Fuseli exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793 as "Macbeth, the cauldron sinking, the witches vanishing; a sketch for a large picture" [no. 110]; no. 83 is the work exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1811, which in fact may be the Folger picture) Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Commissioned by James Woodmason for his Irish Shakespeare Gallery, which opened on 1 May 1793; bought by John Knowles before the artist's death in 1825; Knowles sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 22 April 1842, lot 87; presented to Sir Herbert Tree by Weedon Grossmith (information contained in letter of 3 November 1922 from Parsons to Folger; Parsons offered the painting for sale less than two weeks after Maggs); Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Sale, Phillips, Son & Neale, 13 September 1921, lot 167. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 24 (Plate 6)

2. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 7316 Source Creator Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist. Source Title The play scene from "Hamlet" [graphic] / by Francis Hayman. Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published ca. 1745 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa36 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776, artist. Title (Hamnet) The play scene from "Hamlet" [graphic]. by Francis Hayman. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) ca. 1745. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on canvas : oil ; 34.8 x 29.6 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet. Act III. Scene 2 -- Illustrations. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Notes (Hamnet) Merchant, "Hayman's Illustrations of Shakespeare," Shakespeare Quarterly 9 (Spring 1958) p. 145, repr.; Merchant 1959, p. 47, repr.; Kalman A. Burnim, "Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Illustrations in the Light of Contemporary Documents," Theatre Notebook 14 (Winter 1959- 60), p. 54; Paulson1982, p. 63; Karen Newman, "Hayman's Missing Hamlet," Shakespeare Quarterly 34 (Spring 1983), pp. 77-78, repr. Notes (Hamnet) A.L. Betts, 98 Sutherland Ave., Maida Vale, London W9, June 1927, £32. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed Hayman painted this picture on top of another composition, or at least a portion of one. This first picture was on the horizontal axis (with the draperies at the left). The heads, however have been again painted over in order not to intrude on the design of the completed vertical composition Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19870000 when the painting was restored in 1987, two head emerged in the drapery just above the head of Claudius Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: New Haven, Yale Center for British Art; London, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, Francis Hayman, 1987, no. 38. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Versions: Drawing, pen and ink and gray wash, for Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition of The Works of William Shakespeare, ca. 1740- 41, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in., interleaved in vol. 6, FSL (the engraving after the drawing does not reverse the image); oil on canvas executed for Jonathan Tyers for the Prince of Wales's Pavilion at Vauxhall Gardens, ca. 1745, location unknown; oil on canvas, ca. 1745, location unknown, repr. Merchant 1959, pl. 8a, sometiomes identified as the Vauxhall picture. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) See Pressly Catalogue, no. 36. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 36 Call Number (Hamnet) FPa36

3. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3277 Source Creator Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902. Source Title The Immortal Light of Genius Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1895 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa42 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist. Title (Hamnet) Study for "The Immortal Light of Genius" [graphic]. Th: Nast. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1895. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on paper glue-lined to canvas : oil ; 36.8 x 49.4 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Miscellanea. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed along the right edge there are strokes of white paint, apparently applied to even up the edges where the now discolored, attached brown paper was not cut perfectly straight. The paper/fabric support had been originally attached to a wood panel from which it was disengaging Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19880000 restored, extra panel removed Notes (Hamnet) Engravings: The fact that the sketch bears the phrase "COPYRIGHT 1895" suggests Nast was planning to publish his picture. Jean Miller remembers seeing a prospectus for an engraving, but so far it has not proved possible to relocate. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: 'Roasting the Swan of Avon,' Mar. 1-June 4, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) Inscriptions: A small strip of paper has been glued around the edges on all four sides. Pieces of paper wiht pen-and-ink inscriptions have been glued on top of this strip. At center of top in a penned decorated frame: "APRIL 23TH 1564"; at bottom left: "(SKETCH.)"; at bottom center in a penned decorated frame: "THE IMMORTAL LIGHT OF GENIUS."; at right: "COPYRIGHT 1895 / BY / Th: Nast." ("TH: Nast" is clearly a signature and the printed letters are presumably by the artist as well.) Notes (Hamnet) Related work: See Pressly Catalogue, p. 350. Notes (Hamnet) Thomas Nast sale, Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 10-13 (10) March 1908, lot 85, $35 plus 10 percent commission, Wright acting as agent. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 (Plate 34)

4. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 5686 Source Creator Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788, artist. Image Title Robert Edge Pine. David Garrick. Oil on canvas, ca. 1780 Source Title David Garrick Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1780 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa44 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788, artist. Title (Hamnet) David Garrick [graphic]. Robert Edge Pine. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) ca. 1780. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting : oil on canvas, oval ; 29 3/4 x 24 5/8 in. (75.5 x 62.6 cm.) Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Portraits. Associated Name (Hamnet) Tooth, Arthur, former owner. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Anglesea 1971, p. 194. Notes (Hamnet) Arthur Tooth sale, American Art Galleries, affiliated with American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, and Madison Ave., 56th to 57th streets, 19 February 1925, lot 24, $320 plus 10 percent commission, Rosenbach acting as agent. Notes (Hamnet) Conserved lined and attached to an oval stretcher. The impasto was flattened in a past lining, and the paint surface also suffers from solvent-abrasion and overpainting Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Versions: See Pressly Catalogue, p. 216. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: Pine exhibited a portrait of Garrick at the Royal Academy in 1780 (no. 82), possibly the Folger picture; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Collection of Arthur Tooth. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 120 (Plate 22)

5. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 9296 Source Creator Romney, George, 1734-1802, artist. Source Title Study for Titania, Puck and the Changeling Source Created or Published 1793 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa48 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Romney, George, 1734-1802, artist. Title (Hamnet) Study for Titania, Puck and the Changeling [graphic]. Painted by G. Romney. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1793. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on cardboard mounted on canvas : oil ; 27.3 x 35.7 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Puck. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Titania. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream. Act II. Scene 1 -- Illustrations. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Changeling. Associated Name (Hamnet) Samuel, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 1761?-1815, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Braham, John, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Sabin, F., former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Beneath the frame is attached a small box containg a mourning ring in the memory of Lord Nelson. Inscribed to the left: "THIS PICTURE WITH THE MOURNING / RING IN MEMORY OF LORD NELSON / WAS GIVEN TO JOHN BRAHAM / BY LADY HAMILTON." To the right: "LADY HAMILTON AS TITANIA, / WITH PUCK & THE CHANGELING. / PAINTED BY G. ROMNEY, / THE ORIGINAL SKETCH." A photograph of the picture made in 1927 showing an earlier frame with a similar inscription is in the Witt Library, London. Notes (Hamnet) Bought by Folger from Gabriel Wells, Importer and Dealer, 145 W. 57th St., New York; 489 5th Ave. [1923], March 1928, $3850. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed The squares are approximately 1 5/16 inches a side. Ultraviolet light reveals a fair amount of retouching in the sky and in the foliage in the background Notes (Hamnet) Conserved The surface has been squared off in faint blue lines for transfer Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: Amherst, Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," (no catalogue), 1951; Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, "The Kemble Family: A Theatrical Dynasty," 1985; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Engravings: For prints after the Dublin picture, see Ward and Roberts 1904, p. 195. The earliest of these prints was by Edward Scriven and published on 1 December 1810 by Longman & Co. It appears in John Britton's The Fine Arts of the English School (London, 1812) Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Presented to Lady Hamilton by the artist?; presented to John Braham by Lady Hamilton; Braham sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 9 February 1889, lot 40, bought by Samuel, £94.10.0; Raphael sale, Christie's, 29 May 1927, lot 91, £304.10.0, bought by F. Sabin. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 54 (Plate 9) Call Number (Hamnet) FPa48

6. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3039 Source Creator West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist. Image Title Benjamin West. King Lear and Cordelia (King Lear IV.vii). Oil on canvas, 1793 Source Title King Lear and Cordelia [graphic] / B. West, 1793. Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1793 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa82 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist. Title (Hamnet) King Lear and Cordelia [graphic]. B. West, 1793. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1793. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 19 x 23 9/16 in. (48.1 x 59.9 cm.) Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear. Act IV. Scene 7 -- Illustrations. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Cordelia. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- King Lear. Associated Name (Hamnet) Kennedy, Willoughby Pitcairn, d. 1928, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Bowles, George, of Wanstead, d. 1817, former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) "A Correct Catalogue of the works of Benjamin West, Esq.," La Belle Assemblee or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 4 (1808), Supplement, p. 19 ("The Grecian Daughter defending her father from the tyrant-Its companion, the Couch scene of King Lear and his Daughter," painted for Mr. Bowles of Wanstead); John Dillenberger, Benjamin West: The Context of His Life's Work, San Antonio, 1977, p. 188, no. 497; Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, p. 276, no. 215. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the paint surface has been solvent-abraded, and there is extensive repaint, particularly in the drapery at the top, in the figures of the two women at the left, and in the separation cracks Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19760000 original canvas lined at some early date and 1976 Notes (Hamnet) Related studies: Von Erffa and Staley mention that West's son Benjamin sold a drawing entitled "King Lear and Cordelia" in 1839; one drawing of this subject, dated 1783, is in the British Museum and another is in the Toledo Museum of Art. A related composition is found in three drawings entitled "Esau selling his Birthright for A Dish of Pottage" in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Versions: Painting (42 x 56 1/2 in.) ca. 1784, bought by Peter, duke of Courland, Mitau, and Berlin, now unlocated (von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 212) but known from a print by Daniel Berger of 1791; painting owned by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif. (42 1/2 x 57 in.) similar in composition to Berger print, though cropped at edges, repr. in von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 213; painting (18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.) unlocated, von Erffa and Staley 1986, no. 214, presumably the image reproduced in Richard Earlom's mezzotint of 1 January 1799 (18 x 22 15/16 in.) Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Engravings: Richard Earlom, published in 1799, after one of the earlier versions. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Painted for George Bowles (died 1817) of Wanstead (this information is derived from a printed label in the middle of the upper portion of the back of the frame: "B. West, P.R.A., 1792 [inaccurate date] / The Death of King Lear [inaccurate] / 19 in. by 24 in. / Engraved in Boydell's edition of Shakespeare [inaccurate] / From the Wanstead House Collection"); in the collection of Lt. Col. Willoughby Pitcairn Kennedy, who retired in 1906 to Lynedoch, W. Byfleet, Surrey, and died on 7 August 1928 (this information is derived from a label on lined paper in pen and ink at the lower left of the back of the frame: "No. 16. Drawing room / Death of King Lear by / B. West R.A. / Propt. Col. W. P. Kennedy"). Purchased by Folger from Newman F. McGirr, Rare Books, Prints, Autographs and Paintings, 10 S. 18th St. Room 211, Philadelphia, September 1929, $540. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 84

7. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 6360 Source Creator Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788, artist. Source Title Macbeth meeting the witches [graphic] / Zuccarelli fecit / 1760. Image Details with frame Source Created or Published 1760 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa89 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788, artist. Title (Hamnet) Macbeth meeting the witches [graphic]. Zuccarelli fecit. 1760. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1760. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting : oil on panel ; 31 9/16 x 56 1/4 in. (81.7 x 142.5 cm.) Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth. Act I. Scene 3, depicted. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Banquo, depicted. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Macbeth, depicted. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. Associated Name (Hamnet) Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Westminster, Duke of, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Grosvenor, Richard Grosvenor, Earl, 1731-1802, former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Bought by Folger, July 1925, $2850. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the one-piece oak panel has been thinned to 1/4 inch and stained a dark brown. Marks made by the planing of the wood are clearly visible in the sky. Two identical oak slats, 30 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1/2 inches, have been added to the reverse of the panel as structural restraints and are fastened by paired screws in slotted holes to accommodate possible movement. The screws enter 31/2 x 2 x 1/8 inch wood blocks, which in turn are glued to the original panel. The vertical oak slats are located 15 1/2 inches from each side and are 18 inches apart. Two short wooden strips (3/16 inches thick) have been glued parallel to the grain at the left and right edges of the panel in an attempt to restrain cracks emanating from the edges along the grain. One (5 x 3/4 in.) is located 14 1/2 inches from the bottom on the left and the other (3 1/4 x 3/4 in.) 7 3/8 inches from the bottom on the right Notes (Hamnet) Engravings: An etching, 2 1/4 x 37/8 in., appears in Young's 1821 A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, facing p. 41. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) John Young, "A Catalogue of the Pictures at Grosvenor House, London," London, 1821, p. 41 (no. 128); Anna Jameson, "Companion to the most celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London," London, 1844, pp.262-63; G. F. Waagen, "Treasures of Art in Great Britain," London, 1854, vol. 2, p. 173, misattributed to Richard Wilson; MIchael Levey, "Francesco Zuccarelli in England," Italian Studies 14, (1959), pp. 6-7. Notes (Hamnet) Related works: A painting (37 x 47 in.) signed and dated "Fran. Zuccarelli, fecit... 1760 in Londra" sold at Christie's 14 December 1956, lot 52. This is the painting that was engraved by William Woollett in a print published on 20 December 1770, one state of which gives William Lock as the picture's owner; a canvas (27 x 36 in.) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, is similar in composition to the Lock version but is inferior in quality; Levey mentions that a picture of this subject by Zuccarelli appeared in a London sale of 1761, and one of the versions was exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1767 (no. 196), as "Macbeth meeting the Witches"; there is a pen-and-ink drawing (16 x 21 in.) at Stourhead which is related to the Lock version. Notes (Hamnet) Signed and dated at lower center beneath Banquo's right foot: "Zuccarelli fecit [possibly 'fecet'] / 1760." (This inscription, uncovered in a 1988 restoration, is not recorded in the previous literature; the last two digits are difficult to read and are open to interpretation; "1768" has also been suggested, but the painting has since been found listed in a sale catalogue from 1761). Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Sir William Hamilton, sold by him at auction 21 February 1761 as "Macbeth and Banquo meeting the wayward Sisters in a Storm" to Richard Grosvenor, first earl of Grosvenor; by descent to the duke of Westminster, Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London; sold by him to Rosenbach in 1925. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 95 (Plate 1) Call Number (Hamnet) FPa89

8. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 9251 Source Creator Fradelle, Henry Joseph, 1775-1865, artist. Source Title Othello and Desdemona [graphic] / Henry Joseph Fradelle. Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published ca. 1827 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPb21 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Fradelle, Henry Joseph, 1775-1865, artist. Title (Hamnet) Othello and Desdemona [graphic]. Henry Joseph Fradelle. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) ca. 1827. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on panel : b&w, oil ; 30.5 x 25.1 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello. Act III. Scene 4 -- Illustrations. Subject (Hamnet) Paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Desdemona. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Othello. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the edges of the rectangular panel appear to have been filled in later, so in its original state the work provided a close model for the vignette, which has rounded, uneven corners. The edges of the back of the panel are beveled. The maker's name is incised into the center of the back: "R. Davy / 83 NEWMAN ST" Notes (Hamnet) Painted in shades of grey (i.e., a grisaille). Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Vignette engraving by Charles Pye, published by Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1827, 4 1/8 x 3 1/2 in. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed 20070119 Edges of painting have media abrasion due to frame rubbing onto the surface. Top left corner is missing, chipped. Center top edge of the frame has slight indentation. Frame rabbit lined. Re-framed more securely. See ConsDB 982863. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: G. Michelmore & Co., Rare Books, Autographs, Manuscripts, 5 Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London SW1, 1926, as Kean and Ellen Tree in act III, scene 3 of Othello by John William Wright (see Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated [1923?], no. 46, pp. 111-12, repr. in color); asking price in catalogue £125, but Folger apparently paid £60, as the file card lists it as $300. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 22 Call Number (Hamnet) FPb21

9. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 16304 Source Title David Garrick leaning on a bust of Shakespeare Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published After 1769 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPb27 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Title (Hamnet) David Garrick leaning on a bust of Shakespeare [graphic]. after Thomas Gainsborough. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) After 1769. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 45 x 29 15/16 in. (114.3 x 75.9 cm.) Subject (Hamnet) Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Portraits. Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Associated Name (Hamnet) Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist. Notes (Hamnet) Fink 1959, p. 63 (lists two paintings of Garrick by or after Gainsborough, but both entries refer to this one painting); Anglesea 1971, p. 172, as by Hoppner; Burnim 1984, p. 211, as by Hoppner. Notes (Hamnet) Bought by Folger shortly before 20 September 1926, $1,000. Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19320000 lined by Finlayson Notes (Hamnet) Engraving after original: Mezzotint by Valentine Green, published 2 April 1769 by John Boydell, 23 7/8 x 15 1/8 in. Notes (Hamnet) Original painting: 1766-69, 92 1/2 x 60 in., hung in Town Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon, and destroyed by fire in 1946. Notes (Hamnet) Other copies: Sotheby, 2 May 1962, lot 152, bought by Rich, £60 (48 1/2 x 35 in.); head and shoulders only, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (3x 2 1/2 in.). Anglesea also records what is said to be a finished sketch by Gainsborough in the collection of G.B. Fisher (24 x 16 in.) Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 12, as by Hoppner. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Michelmore catalogue, "Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 42, as by John Hoppner after Gainsborough, repr. in color, £400 asking price. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 109 Call Number (Hamnet) FPb27

10. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 6375 Source Creator Reynolds, Sir Joshua, studio of Image Title Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds. David Garrick, The Prologue Portrait. Oil on canvas, ca. 1776-79 Source Title David Garrick Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPb37 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Title (Hamnet) David Garrick [graphic]. studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) ca. 1776-79. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting : oil on canvas ; 29 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (75 x 61.5 cm.) Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Subject (Hamnet) Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Portraits. Associated Name (Hamnet) Mills, Thomas, Sir, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Lansdowne House, London, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist. Notes (Hamnet) Conserved three of the Garrick portraits, including the Reynolds, were cleaned and relined Notes (Hamnet) Engravings after original: Mezzotint by Thomas Watson, 14 3/4 x 11 in., published by Watson and Dickinson, 1779. This was the first of many. A list is given in Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, p. 86. Graves and Cronin incorrectly list the prints as being after the Lansdowne version. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: (always exhibited as by Reynolds): London, British Institution, "Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters," 1861, no. 148; London, South Kensington Museum, "Catalogue of the Second Special Exhibition of National Portraits Commencing with the Reign of William and Mary and Ending with the Year MDCCC," 1869, no. 607; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, "Loan Collection of Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough... and Other Artists," 1900, no. 17; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951 (a photograph of this last exhibition confirms it was this picture and not no. 122 or no. 135 that was on loan) Notes (Hamnet) Inscribed at the top of the paper facing Garrick: "Prologue." Notes (Hamnet) Original painting: Painted for the Thrales and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776; sold at Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 24 November 1972, lot 140, bought by Lawson. Notes (Hamnet) Related works: A replica that was presented to the third duke of Dorset in 1780 is at Knole. In addition to the two works at the Folger are ones in the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Garrick Club; the Hereford City Museum; and the collection of the late Lord Olivier (see Highfill 1973-, vol. 6, pp. 85-86 [no. 42]) Notes (Hamnet) See Pressly Catalogue, pp. 217-218. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Lansdowne sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 7 March 1930, lot 65, 950 guineas plut 10 percent commission (£1097.5.0), as by Reynolds, Wells acting as agent. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Belonged in 1779 to Sir Thomas Mills (according to Graves and Cronin); the marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 121

11. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3271 Source Creator Anonymous Image Title The Dexter Portrait of Shakespeare. Oil on panel, 19th century Source Title Dexter portrait of Shakespeare Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPs10 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Title (Hamnet) The Dexter portrait of Shakespeare [graphic]. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) [Nineteenth century] Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on panel : oil ; 38.4 x 29.1 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits. Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Associated Name (Hamnet) Dexter, Elias, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Dexter, Ella F., former owner. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Bought from Ella F. Dexter, Elias's granddaughter, then living in Brooklyn, through John Anderson, Jr., July 1906, $1500 plust commission. See Pressly Catalogue, p. 281. Notes (Hamnet) Conserved restored several times, the panel, approximately 1/4 inch thick, was rasped down to accommodate a cradle composed of five boards glued parallel to the ducts and five movable battens Notes (Hamnet) Inscribed at top of ppaer on which Shakespeare is writing: "Merrie Wives of Windsor." (Elias Dexter's son also noted that the spines of the books on the shelves behind Shakespeare have titles, and he recorded the following: "Hamlet," "Terence in Englyshe," "Doraster and Faunia," and "Fauna Romanorum." There is no evidence that this is the case. He may have been reading into the painted highlights on the spines words that simply do not exist) Notes (Hamnet) Piper 1962, no. 7. Notes (Hamnet) Versions: See no. D66 in Pressly Catalogue. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed a vertical crack runs through the panel about an inch left of the center. Another crack runs up the left edge starting about 2 1/2 inches from the bottom, and there is a small crack running through Shakespeare's left hand. Pentimenti indicate that buildings were painted out of the landscape, and there is some repaint in Shakespeare's beard and collar Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: Bought in or before 1864 by Elias Dexter, art dealer in New York City, from an unnamed lady to whom the painting had passed by descent. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 153

12. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3258 Source Creator Anonymous Source Title Portrait of an unknown man (the Zuccaro Shakespeare) Image Details (also called Bath Portrait and Archer Portrait) from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published ca. 1615-20 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPs29 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Title (Hamnet) Portrait of an unknown man (the Zuccaro Shakespeare) [graphic] Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) ca. 1615-20. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on panel : oil ; cm. Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Associated Name (Hamnet) Wills, W. H., former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Archer, Mr., former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: London, The New Gallery, "Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor," no. 391; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the oak panel is 1/4 inch thick, with the wood grain running vertically. While the panel is probably the fragment of a larger painting, this piece had itself been enlarged at a later date. There are serious losses of ground, and the surface of the wood also seems to be affected. The most serious losses are in the face. The whole lower half appears to have been deliberately defaced with very deep scratches, almost destroying the paint layer and ground of the chin, mouth, and beard Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19880000 restored Notes (Hamnet) Inscribed at upper right: "W Shakespeare." Notes (Hamnet) John L. Clawson sale, Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 24 May 1926, lot 730B, repr., $1600, Rosenbach acting as agent. Notes (Hamnet) The painting was reproduced for the first time in an English newspaper of 12 April 1905 (clipping of unidentified newspaper in Folger file); Spielmann 1911; Spielmann 1921a; Spielmann 1922, p. 624, repr.; Piper 1962, no. 26; Schoenbaum 1970, pp. 466-67. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: According to the 1922 sale catalogue, this pictures was first referred to in an advertisement in a Bath newspaper in 1801, at which time it was attributed to the year 1602. It then passed into the possession of Mr. Archer of the Royal Library at Weymouth. In 1862 it was purchased by Mr. W. H. Wills, a well-known journalist, for Baroness Burdett-Coutts; Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 4 May 1922, lot 133, repr., 300 guineas, bought by Wells, Sabin acting as agent. Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 166 Call Number (Hamnet) FPs29

13. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3278 Source Creator Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist. Source Title Portrait of Shakespeare Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1864 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPa79 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872, artist. Title (Hamnet) Portrait of Shakespeare [graphic]. TS 1864. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1864. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on canvas : oil ; 51.1 x 43.3 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Associated Name (Hamnet) Sessler, Charles, former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Woods, Matthew, Dr., former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994. Notes (Hamnet) Bought by Folger from Charles Sessler, Importer and Bookseller, 1314 Walnut St., Philadelphia, December 1924, $1500. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed there is a small tear in the sitter's left collar and a smal puncture to the left of the center of the head Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19320000 original canvas was glue-lined, apparently by Finlayson, onto another canvas with a commercially prepared ground Notes (Hamnet) Conserved 19880000 the work was conserved Notes (Hamnet) Matthew Woods, Rambles of a Physician: or, A Midsummer Dream, Philadelphia, 1889, vol. 1, p. 218, repr. on p. 219 with the following caption: "SULLY'S 'THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR SHAKESPEARE' IN POSSESSION OF THE AUTHOR), PAINTED BY THAT ARTIST FROM HIS COLLECTION OF NEARLY 400 PICTURES OF SHAKESPEARE, AND WHICH HE MAINTAINED 'CONTAINED THE EXCELLENCIES OF ALL, AND THE FAULTS OF NONE'"; Biddle and Fielding 1921, no. 1570. Notes (Hamnet) Subject: See Pressly Catalogue, no. 170. Notes (Hamnet) The lining of the canvas is annotated in black ink on its back: "Shakespeare / Copied from Engravings / TS 1864." Presumably this annotation repeats information on the back of the original canvas. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: By descent to Dr. Matthew Woods, whose family purchased the painting for $3000; sold at auction in Philadelphia for $1100; bought by Sessler $1300 (above information from Sessler correspondence in Folger file) Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 170 (Plate 26) Call Number (Hamnet) FPa79

14. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Digital Image File Name 3260 Source Creator Page, William, 1811-1885, artist. Image Title William Page. Portrait of Shakespeare. Oil on canvas, 1873 Source Title Portrait of Shakespeare Image Details from a 4x5 color transparency Source Created or Published 1873 Digital Image Type FSL collection Source Call Number FPs24 HAMNET CATALOG RECORD ___ Creator (Hamnet) Page, William, 1811-1885, artist. Title (Hamnet) Portrait of Shakespeare [graphic]. William Page. Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet) 1873. Physical Description (Hamnet) 1 painting on canvas : oil ; 68.6 x 53.3 cm. Subject (Hamnet) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Portraits. Subject (Hamnet) Portrait paintings. gmgpc Associated Name (Hamnet) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), former owner. Associated Name (Hamnet) Shaw, Francis George, Mrs., former owner. Notes (Hamnet) Bought by Folger from Union Square Book Shop, Dealers in Rare Books, Prints and Autographs, 30 E. 14th St., New York, May 1929, $625. Notes (Hamnet) Condition reviewed the oil paint is thinly applied without impasto. There appears to be extensive repaint in both the figure and the background Notes (Hamnet) Conserved lined by Finlayson Notes (Hamnet) Exhibited: "Rave Reviews: 100 Years of American Art" National Academy of Design, NYC, September - December 2000; the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, Jan. 31 through Apr. 1, 2001; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, April 21 through June 24, 2001. Notes (Hamnet) Inscribed at lower left next to arm: "WP.3d Shke / 1873." Inscribed in pen and ink on a page glued to uper center of blind stretcher: "Studio Building, 57 W. 10th St: / New York March 22nd '73 / My dear Sarah Shaw the / head of Shakespeare, which you / saw in my studio, and which I am / still at work on, was painted / for a gentleman, to whom, I have / written, to come and see it, no less / than twice he having neglected / to do so I consider myself at lib- / erty to do what I will with the picture. Would you like to / have it, or Frank? I thought / befor I attempted otherwise to dispose of it I ought to let you know / as you seemed interested in it-Hope / Mr Curtis is better Ever your friend / Wm Page." (Page moved into the Studio Building in 1867. Sarah and her husband, Frank, whose full name was Francis George Shaw, were close friends and patrons of the artist) Notes (Hamnet) Joshua Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, Chicago, 1957, p. 257, no. 47 (Taylor gives the early provenance but did not know the painting's present whereabouts); Piper 1962, no. 6. Notes (Hamnet) This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance. Notes (Hamnet) Title from Pressly. Provenance (Hamnet) Provenance: According to Page, commissioned in 1868, possibly by Theodore Tilton; offered by the artist to Mrs. Francis George Shaw on 22 March 1873; presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1903 by Mrs. Francis George Shaw; Metropolitan Museum sale, American Art Association, February 1929, lot 59 (a portion of a Metropolitan Museum label is still on the frame at lower right) Citations (Hamnet) Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 171