O, Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?

Catalogue entry

N02937 O ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO? c. 1912
 
Inscr. ‘W. Hatherell.’ b.l.
Gouache, 9 1/2×7 (24×18).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1913.
Exh: R.A., 1913 (989).
Lit: Malcolm S. Salaman, Shakespeare in Pictorial Art (Studio Special Number), 1916, p.47, repr. p.177 (in colour).

This was reproduced as the frontispiece, the first of twenty-two illustrations in colour, to Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Another balcony scene illustrating the line ‘Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?’ is reproduced facing p.56.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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