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Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”, c. 1776. Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on ivory laid paper.
Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on ivory laid paper · Primary support: 29.7 × 48.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”
- Artist
- George Romney English, 1734-1802
- Date
- c. 1776
- Medium
- Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 29.7 × 48.9 cm (11 3/4 × 19 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 36 × 55.4 cm (14 3/16 × 21 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1734–1802
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.