List of deaccessioned paintings
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Return of the prodigal paintings, D25 and D29.
List of paintings at the Folger in the Pressly Catalogue
Deaccessioned paintings
Pressly number | Artist | Title | Year | Physical Description | Provenance | Location | |||||||
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D1 | Joseph Barney (1751-1829) | Prospero, Miranda, and Ferdinand ( The Tempest I.2) | 1788 | Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 51 1/2 in. | Case number 1649; Bought from A. Betts, ESq., London, through Maggs, February 1927, ₤35 plus 10 percent commission; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sold to Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 37, repr., $275 | ||||||||
D2 | Hillary Bell (1857-1903) | Charles Fisher as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1886 | Oil painting, 35 x 35 in. | Augustin Daly sale, Anderson Galleries, 27 November 1912, lot 67, $55 plus 10 percent commission, George D. Smith acting as agent; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964; Coleman Auction Galleries, 15-16 April 1964, lot 14, $25 | ||||||||
D3 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Basil Gill as Ferdinand ( The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, 13 September 1924, lot 206; bought from Michelmore, October 1921, ₤200, in a group of three; Parke Bernet shipment, sold Park Bernet, 21 May 1954, $30 for three | ||||||||
D4 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Lionel Brough as Trinculo ( The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 201; Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 27, purchased January 1923, one of seven items for ₤400; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 122, $35 for five | ||||||||
D5 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Louis Calvert as Stephano ( The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 208; Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 28, purchased January 1923, one of seven items for ₤400; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 122, $35 for five | ||||||||
D6 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | D. Lyn Harding as Antonio ( The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 203; bought from Michelmore, October 1921, ₤200, in a group of three; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 124, $30 for three | ||||||||
D7 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | William Haviland as Prospero ( The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 202; bought from MIchelmore, January 1922, ₤65; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 124, $30 for three | ||||||||
D8 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Prospero's Cave (Scene from The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 199; Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 29, purchased May 1923, ₤22; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1924, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 122, $35 for five | ||||||||
D9 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | A Wood (Scene from The Tempest) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 176; bought from Michelmore, October 1921, ₤200, in a group of three. There is no record of its being part of Parke Bernet shipment, but it is no longer in the collection. | ||||||||
D10 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Norman Forbes as Sir Andrew Aguecheek ( Twelfth Night) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 176; bought from Michelmore, October 1921, ₤22; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 122, $35 for five | ||||||||
D11 | Charles A. Buchel (1872-1950) | Miss Zeffie Tilbury as Maria ( Twelfth Night) | 1901-1904 | Oil painting, approximately 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree sale, Phillips, lot 178; Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 26, purchased May 1923, ₤22; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964, sold Parke Bernet, 21 May 1964, lot 122, $35 for five | ||||||||
D12 | Charles William Campbell (1855-1887) | Ellen Terry as Ophelia (Hamlet) | Oil on canvas, 32 x 16 in. | Henry Irving sale, Christie's, 16 December 1905, lot 112, 10 guineas ($75), as by C. C. Campbell; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 72, $160 | |||||||||
D13 | John Cawse (1779-1862) | Falstaff Choosing His Recruits (Henry IV, Part 2 III.2) | ca. 1818 | Oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 33 1/4 in. | Case number: 1750; Parsons, January 1928, ₤30.10.0; sold to ASFTA, February 1962 | Yale Center for British Art | |||||||
D14 | Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) | Portrait of Shakespeare | 1858 | Oil painting, 14 x 15 1/2 in. (Folger card file); 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (1976 sale catalogue) | Case number: 1311; Commissioned by Moncure D. Conway, sold to Folger by his son Eustace Conway through Thomas F. Madigan, October 1923, $175; sold to ASTFA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976m kit 76, as Shakespeare with His Dog, $400 | ||||||||
D15 | George Clint (1770-1854) | Edmund Kean as Richard III | Oil painting, 27 x 23 in. | Parsons, March 1929, $190. | In 1950, Maurice Block listed this work as not found [no. 30] | ||||||||
D16 | George Clint (1770-1854), attributed | A Scene from John Howard Payne's "The Merry Monarch" (Formerly Madame Vestris and John Philip Kemble in The Taming of the Shrew IV.3) | Oil on canvas, 24 x 17 1/2 in. | Case number: 1709; Parsons, September 1927, ₤50; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 77, repr., $650; sold Boothbay Theatre Museum Collection, Oliver's Auction Gallery, Kennebunk, Maine, June 22, 1990, no. 7 with new identification | |||||||||
D17 | William Gersham Collingwood (1854-1932) | Valley of the Reykjadatsa [Reekdale] River from Deildartunga | Oil painting, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. | Source unknown; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964 | |||||||||
D18 | George Cruikshank (1792-1878) | The First Appearance of William Shakespeare on the Stage of the Globe with Part of His Dramatic Company in 1564 | 1864-1865 | Oil on canvas, 27 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. | Woodin; Parke Bernet, 6-7 January 1942, lot 179; Maggs, cat. 429, $225; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Yale Center for British Art, 1975 | Yale Center for British Art | |||||||
D19 | George Cruikshank (1792-1878) | Falstaff at Herne's Oak (The Merry Wives of Windsor V.5) | 1857 | Oil painting, 36 x 48 in. | Case number: 1619; Purchased from Walter T. Spenser, London, February 1920, by George D. Smith; acquired by Folger from R. J. C. Lingel, president, George D. Smith Book Co., December 1926, $1,000; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Yale Center for British Art, 1975 | Yale Center for British Art | |||||||
D20 | George Cruikshank (1792-1878) | Touchstone and Audrey (As You Like It III.3) | 1856 | Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 in. | Case number: 858; Fifth Avenue Auction Room, 13 February 1909, no. 885, $71.50, Smith acting as agent; sold to ASFTA, Februrary 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 86, repr. $600 | ||||||||
D21 | Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895) | Ophelia (Hamlet III.1) | 1875 | Oil on canvas, 38 x 25 in. | Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], repr. in color, $500 (asking price had been ₤200; presumably reduced to ₤125); sold to Amherst College, February 1961, $300 | Amherst College | |||||||
D22 | Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895), or Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928) | Othello and Desdemona (Othello V.2) | Oil on canvas, 44 x 66 in. | Case number: 1927; Michelmore, July 1929, ₤50, as by T.F. Dicksee; sold to ASFTA, February 1962, as by T.F. Dicksee; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 93, as by Frank dicksee, repr. $1,400 | |||||||||
D23 | Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819-1895), or Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928) | Juliet and the Friar (Romeo and Juliet IV.1) | 1881 | Oil on canvas, 31 x 37 in. | Maggs, 1926, cat. no. 250, repr. pl. XLIX, as by T.F. Dicksee, ₤60 (asking price), $270 (payment recorded in Folger file); sold to ASFTA, February 1962, as by T.F. Dicksee; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 92, as by Frank Dicksee, repr., $550 | ||||||||
D24 | Harold Dunbar (b.1882) | Viola Allen as Viola in Twelfth Night | 1905 | Oil painting, 27 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. | Presented by Charles W. Allen, 13 July 1948; Parke Bernet shipment, March 1964; sold Coleman Auction Galleries, 15-16 April 1964, lot 15, $25 | ||||||||
D25 | G[eorge?] Francis (fl. late 18th, early 19th centuries) | David Garrick as King Lear (King Lear III.5) | 1810 | Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 22 in. | Schatzki, January 1945, $180; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 97, repr., $250; Reacquired by Folger in 2012 | Folger Shakespeare Library | |||||||
D26a | William Henry Freeman (fl. 1839-75) | Recto: Scene from Hamlet I.4 | |||||||||||
D26b | William Henry Freeman (fl. 1839-75) | Verso: Study of Falstaff | 1840 | Oil on cardboard, 12 x 14 in. | Case number: 1388; Maggs, 5 February 1925, $145 | In 1950, Maurice Block listed this work as not found [no. 56] | |||||||
D27 | Albert Goodwin (1845-1932) | Before the Cell of Prospero (The Tempest I.2) | 1908 | Gouache and oil, 21 x 20 1/2 in. | Michelmore, June 1928, ₤150 (asking price); sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, no. 103, repr. $450 | ||||||||
D28 | George Henry Hall (1825-1913) | Portrait of Shakespeare | 1896 (original) | Oil replica (?) of the painting, 56 1/2 x 47 in. | Jennie Brownscombe, New York, January 1916, $95 (price included two crayon studies of head of Shakespeare); sold to Louis Marder, Kent State University, February 1964, $200 | ||||||||
D29 | William Hamilton (1750/1-1801) | Brabantio's Accusation Against Othello (Othello I.3) | Oil on panel, 24 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. | Case number: 1838; Parsons, September 1928, ₤45 less 10 percent; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; reacquired by Folger in 2012 | Folger Shakespeare Library | ||||||||
D30 | William Hamilton (1750/1-1801) | The First Meeting of Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet I.5) | Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in. | Parsons, September 1927, 40 guineas; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 108, repr., $600 | |||||||||
D31 | William Hamilton, attributed | Hero and Ursula with Beatrice Listening in the Garden (Much Ado About Nothing III.1) | Oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. | Maggs, March 1925, £105, for this an no. 50; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 111, $125 | |||||||||
D32 | George Henry Harlow (1787-1819) | The Court Scene for the Trial of Queen Katharine (Henry VIII II.4) | Oil on canvas, 29 x 38 1/2 in. | Case no. 1852; Parsons, October 1928, £42.14.6; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 114, $150 | |||||||||
D33 | William Salter Herrick (fl. 1852-1880) | Othello Taking Leave of Desdemona (Othello, I.1) | 1876 | Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. | Michelmore catalogue Shakespeareana Illustrated, [1923?], no. 41, repr. in color; bought by Folger, July 1926, $375; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 123, as "Look to Her Moor" (I, 3), repr., $225 | ||||||||
D34 | William Salter Herrick (fl. 1852-1880) | Look to Her Moor (Othello I.3) | 1860 | Oil on canvas, 41 x 35 in. | Michelmore, February 1930, £75l sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 122, repr. $600 | ||||||||
D35 | William Hodges (1744-1797) | Jacques and the Wounded Stag (As You Like It II.1) | 1790 | Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 48 1/2 in. | Commissioned by Boydell for £73.10.0; sold by Christie, 17 May 1805, lot 41; bought by Sir Charles Burrell for 75 guineas; acquired by Folger from Parsons, October 1926, £40; sold to ASFTA, Februrary 1962; Yale Center for British Art, 1976 | Yale Center for British Art | |||||||
D36 | James Reid Lambdin (1807-1889), after Thomas Sully | George Frederick Cooke as Richard III | Oil painting, 96 x 59 in. | Case number 200; Augustin Daly (on exhibit in Daly's Theatre, New York); Daly sale, Anderson Galleries, 27 November 1912, lot 73, $140 plus 10 percent commission, Smith acting as agent; sold to ASFTA, February 1962 | |||||||||
D37 | after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) | Kemble as Hamlet | Oil painting, 77 x 44 in. | Case number 1498; James Orrock sale, Christie's, 4-6 June 1904, lot 270; Viscount Leverhulme sale, Anderson Galeries, 17-19 (18) February 1926, lot 156, repr., $1200 plus 10 percent commission, Rosenbach acting as agent; sold to ASFTA, Februrary 1962. | |||||||||
D38 | Leonard van den Kerckhove (also Kerckhoven, 1828-1898) | Shakespeare, or the Glory of Great Britain | Oil on canvas, 14 ft. 4 in. x 10 ft. 5 in. | Case number 1875; Presented to the Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1881 by Capt. E. Birt Lemmon; bought by Folger, December 1928, £140, Sawyer acting as agent; lost by 1950, when Maurice Block compiled his list of paintings in the Folger. | Maurice Block listed this work as lost | ||||||||
D39 | Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) | The Dying Queen Katharine's Interview with Capucius (Henry VIII IV.2) | Oil on canvas, 32 x 24 in. | Commissioned by Isumbard Kingdom Brunel, the engineer; sold Christie's, April 1864; James Dugdale of Wroxall Abbey, Warwickshire; bought by Folger from Michelmore, A Catalogue of Shakespeareana, ntoes and preface by Falconer Madan, [1927], no. 437, £150 (asking price); sold to Amherst College, May 1961, $1,000 (for this painting and a bust of Shakespeare by Carrière-Belleuse) | Amherst College | ||||||||
D40 | Edwin Long (1829-1891) | Sir Henry Irving as Hamlet | 1880 | Oil on canvas, 63 x 44 in. | Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie's, 5 May 1922, lot 224, ₤42 plus 10 percent commission, Rosenbach acting as agent; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 129, repr., $2300 | ||||||||
D41 | Edwin Long (1829-1891) | Sir Henry Irving as Richard, Duke of Gloucester | 1877 | Oil on canvas, 57 x 40 in. | Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie's, 5 May 1922, lot 225, ₤33.12.0 plus 10 percent commission, Rosenbach acting as agent; sold to ASFTA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 130, repr., $1500; Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC | Bob Jones University | D42 | attributed to (?), Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812) | Falstaff with the Body of Hotspur (Henry IV, Part 1 V.4) | ca. 1786 | Oil on paper, 12 x 11 1/4 in. | Michelmore, June 1928, ₤75 (asking price), bought as by John Opie and entitled The Young Roscius (Henry West Betty) as Falstaff; sold to ASTFA, February 1962; Yale Center for British Art, 1975 | Yale Center for British Art |
D43 | style of Philip James de Loutherbourg | Macbeth and the Witches (Macbeth I.3 | Oil on canvas, 17 x 21 1/2 in. | Parsons, May 1928, ₤40, as by de Loutherbourg; sold to ASTFA, February 1962; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 15 January 1976, lot 132, repr., $175 | |||||||||
D44 |