Slender, with the assistance of Shallow, courting Anne Page, from "The merry wives of Windsor," act III, scene iv

Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1825

Height:

67.6 cm  (26 5/8 in.)

Width:

80.0 cm  (31 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Painting presents Shakespearean characters Slender, Shallow, and Anne Page in act III, scene iv of "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The setting is an interior room with a table, a window to a landscape view, and a door to a room and people beyond it. On the floor at the left of the painting there is an instrument case resting against the wall; at the right of the painting there is an English guitar, with strap, leaning against a chair.

Iconclass

83(SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor)
(scenes from) specific works of literature: Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor
48C852
group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage
48C813
set, scenery ~ stage
82A(SLENDER)
male literary characters (Slender)
82A(SHALLOW)
male literary characters (Shallow)
82AA(ANNE PAGE)
female literary characters (Anne Page)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

English guitar [3107] (with strap)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

A brush with Shakespeare: The bard in painting, 1780-1910 (Montgomery, AL: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1985) 11, 12, fig. 14.


Acquisitions: The first decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1986) 16, no. 37.

RIdIM record id

6266