George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)

Macbeth confronts Banquo's ghost

Details

George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Macbeth confronts Banquo's ghost
numbered '8' (lower left) and number 'N^o 189' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash on paper, watermark 'JWHATMAN'
12 7/8 x 19 3/8 in. (32.7 x 49.2 cm.)

Provenance

Alfred de Pass (L. 2104E), by whom given to
The Royal Institute of Cornwall, Truro; Christie's, London, 22 February 1966, lot 35 (one of three in lot).
with Agnew's, London, 2002, no. 12.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 159.

Exhibited

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, George Romney 1734-1802, 1984, no. 24.

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Lot Essay

William Hayley dates Romney's work on the Banquet scene in Macbeth to the spring of 1792 (The Life of George Romney, Esq., London, 1809, pp. 172-3) and there are sketchbooks of studies by Romney of this subject in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington.

For a drawing by Romney of Lady Macbeth see lot 31.

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