Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

YMSM 317
Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46393
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 14.8 x 9.0 cm (5 7/8 x 3 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, ca 1892

Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe

Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe dates from 1884. It was probably painted soon after July 1884 when Archibald Campbell (1846-1913) and Lady Janey Sevilla Campbell (Lady Archibald Campbell) (ca 1846-d.1923) initiated a series of open-air dramatic performances at Coombe Woods in Surrey.

Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe, The Hunterian
Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe, The Hunterian

Shakespeare's As You Like It, with Lady Archibald as Orlando, was the first play performed. 1

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 317).

Last updated: 5th December 2020 by Margaret