Malvolio and Sir Toby (from William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night', Act II, scene iii)
George Clint, ARA (London 1770 - Kensington 1854)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1833 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
464 x 711 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485055
Caption
Malvolio: My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?... Sir Toby: We did keep time, sir, in our catches.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Malvolio and Sir Toby (from William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' , Act II, scene iii) by George Clint ARA (London 1770 – Kensington 1854). Five full-length figures, from left to right, Maria, Feste, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch in scarlet, centre, carousing and Malvolio, in a white flowered silk dressing gown standing by the door.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth, The Egremont Collection
Marks and inscriptions
138 (front, bottom left corner)
Makers and roles
George Clint, ARA (London 1770 - Kensington 1854), artist