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
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