File:"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4) MET 49J 149R3.jpg

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"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4), print, William Sharp, after Benjamin West (MET, 24.63.1869)

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"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
William Sharp  (1749–1824)  wikidata:Q3568948
 
William Sharp
Description British drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 29 January 1749 Edit this at Wikidata 25 July 1824 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Chiswick
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3568948
After Benjamin West  (1738–1820)  wikidata:Q313498 q:it:Benjamin West
 
After Benjamin West
Description American-British painter and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 10 October 1738 / 10 November 1738 Edit this at Wikidata 11 March 1820 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Springfield Township London
Work location
London, Roma, Philadelphia
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q313498
publisher:Creator:John & Josiah Boydell
Title
"Off, off, you lendings–Come unbutton here" (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4)
Object type Print; Prints
Description
In one of a series of engravings Boydell published to reproduce paintings displayed in the Shakespeare Gallery, King Lear has been driven out by his daughters and is buffeted by a storm on a heath. As the king displays his unsettled mind by tearing off his clothes, the Duke of Kent begs him to take shelter. Edgar, another outcast disguised as Tom O'Bedlam, sits at lower right near the Fool. Completing the group, the Duke of Gloucester raises a torch against the darkness. The American born painter West made his name in England painting neoclassical subjects admired by George III, together with heroic modern histories, but here uses a swirling baroque mode suited to a subject that contemporaries would have seen as echoing the madness that afflicted their own king from 1788.
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Etching and engraving
Dimensions

image: 17 3/8 x 23 5/16 in. (44.2 x 59.2 cm)

sheet: 19 1/4 x 24 7/16 in. (48.9 x 62.1 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Drawings and Prints
Accession number
24.63.1869
Credit line Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339842

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