George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)

Macbeth confronts Banquo's ghost

已结束2012年7月10日

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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Macbeth confronts Banquo's ghost
numbered '8' (lower left) and number 'No 189' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash on paper, watermark 'JWHATMAN'
12 7/8 x 19 3/8 in. (32.7 x 49.2 cm.)

Alfred de Pass (L. 2104E), by whom given to
The Royal Institute of Cornwall, Truro; Christie's, London, 22 February 1966, lot 35 (one of three in lot).
with Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 12.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 159.

专家说明

William Hayley dates Romney's work on the Banquet scene in Macbeth to the spring of 1792 (The Life of George Romney, Esq., London, 1809, pp. 172-3) and there are sketchbooks of studies by Romney of this subject in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington.

For a drawing by Romney of Lady Macbeth see lot 31.