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Portia and Bassanio

Oil Painting
1831 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil painting


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePortia and Bassanio (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting by Gilbert Stuart Newton entitled 'Portia and Bassanio' from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' (Act III, Scene 2). Great Britain, 1831.
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 106.7cm
  • Approx. width: 91.4cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'G S Newton 1831' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left)
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subject depicted
Literary referenceShakespeare, <i>The Merchant of Venice</i>
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 215-16
Collection
Accession number
FA.166[O]

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Record createdApril 16, 2007
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