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Miniatures: G0354
Title
Edmund Kean
Technique
Watercolour
Subject
Character
Shylock : The Merchant of Venice
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 6.5cm
Width: 5.2cm
Width: 5.2cm
Other materials
Watercolour on ivory
Provenance
Presented by H. G. Rooth and Miss M. A. Rooth, 1924
Other number
CKA 537
Gift 422
Gift 422
Exhibition history
1992-93 London, Museum of Richmond "Edmund Kean"
1998 London, Christie's Institute "For Freedom's Battle - Heinrich Heiner and England"
Shylock, wielding knife and scales, wears brown shoes, red stockings, long baggy purple knee-breeches, and a long purple coat with gold buttons.
Kean made his mature début at Drury Lane as Shylock on 26 January 1814. His début at Covent Garden on 15 October 1817 was also as Shylock.
Kean made his mature début at Drury Lane as Shylock on 26 January 1814. His début at Covent Garden on 15 October 1817 was also as Shylock.
