Gouache on paper
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O Romeo Romeo Wherefore Art Thou Romeo
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1913
‘Romeo and Juliet’
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
balcony
characters
features
foliage
head in hand / hands
Juliet
literature and fiction
people
plants and flowers
Shakespeare
standing
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
woman
paper unique gouache
O, Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?
support: 241 × 178 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1913
<p><b>N02937</b>	O ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO? <i>c.</i>
1912
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<br/>Inscr. ‘W. Hatherell.’ b.l.
<br/>Gouache, 9 1/2×7 (24×18).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1913.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1913 (989).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Malcolm S. Salaman, <i>Shakespeare in Pictorial Art (Studio Special Number)</i>, 1916, p.47, repr. p.177 (in colour).</p>
<p>This was reproduced as the frontispiece, the first of twenty-two illustrations in colour, to <i>Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet</i>, Hodder &amp; Stoughton, 1912. Another balcony scene illustrating the line ‘Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?’ is reproduced facing p.56.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture balcony characters features foliage head in hand / hands Juliet literature and fiction people plants and flowers ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare standing townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features woman