Shakespeare's Seven Ages (of Man) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1805

Engraved by John Slack (English, active 1794-1828) and others after paintings by Robert Smirke’s (English, 1752–1845)
Salford, Lancashire, England

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Robert Smirke, the elder (Painter)
Title: Shakespeare's Seven Ages (of Man) (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: England (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1801–1820
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Inscriptions: Inscriptions: The Infant; The School Boy; The Lover; The Soldier; The Justice; The Slipper'd Pantaloon; Dotage; Slack
Dimensions: 147.6 × 66.8 cm (58 1/8 × 26 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 84.8 cm (33 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
Reference Number: 1952.1250
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Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Engraved Imagery: Literary Subjects on Cloth, Feb. 22–May 14, 1995, brochure.

Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, DC, by Dec. 3, 1952 [Incoming receipt RX768, Dec. 3, 1952; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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