
Not on display
- Artist
- Henry Wallis 1830–1916
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 292 × 419 mm
frame: 511 × 638 × 65 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1955
- Reference
- T00042
Display caption
Wallis launched his career exhibiting a sequence of paintings of interior scenes connected with the life of playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616). This one shows Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. It is based on a biography by Charles Knight written in 1842. It describes ‘the mean room, with its massive joists and plastered walls, firm with ribs of oak’. Wallis has painted the room in detail, including every nail securing the floorboards. He has also taken note of Knight’s passage describing how ‘hundreds amongst the hundreds of thousands by whom that name is honoured have inscribed their names on the walls of the room.’
Gallery label, June 2019
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