Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Scenes from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1837, 9 pen and brown ink sketches on paper, mostly 6 x 5 cm (2.5 x 2 ins), the two largest 10.5 x 8 cm ( 4 x 3 ins), all but one showing a scene with two figures including Romeo and Juliet, two drawings with closed tears, mounted in two rows on one side of a larger sheet (soiled and frayed), annotated in ink 'Shakspear' (trimmed) at upper margin, and 'W.M. Thackeray / 1837' beneath, overall 26 x 37 cm (10.25 x 114.5 ins), verso blank These sketches date from the period when Thackeray was most active as an illustrator. See Gordon N. Ray, editor, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray (Harvard, 1947), Vol. 1, pp. 326-9; and Ray, Thackeray, The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846, (Oxford, 1955), pp. 750-850. Although Thackeray had studied art in Paris in the early 1830s and had spent much time copying from Old Masters in the Louvre, his talent never matched his ambition to succeed as an artist, except perhaps in his comic sketches. He worked quickly and prolifically, discarding a great deal of his early work; ('I have got enough torn-up pictures to roast an ox by', 11 April 1835, to Frank Stone . (Qty: 1)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 Scenes from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1837, 9 pen and brown ink sketches on paper, mostly 6 x 5 cm (2.5 x 2 ins), the two largest 10.5 x 8 cm ( 4 x 3 ins), all but one showing a scene with two figures including Romeo and Juliet, two drawings with closed tears, mounted in two rows on one side of a larger sheet (soiled and frayed), annotated in ink 'Shakspear' (trimmed) at upper margin, and 'W.M. Thackeray / 1837' beneath, overall 26 x 37 cm (10.25 x 114.5 ins), verso blank These sketches date from the period when Thackeray was most active as an illustrator. See Gordon N. Ray, editor, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray (Harvard, 1947), Vol. 1, pp. 326-9; and Ray, Thackeray, The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846, (Oxford, 1955), pp. 750-850. Although Thackeray had studied art in Paris in the early 1830s and had spent much time copying from Old Masters in the Louvre, his talent never matched his ambition to succeed as an artist, except perhaps in his comic sketches. He worked quickly and prolifically, discarding a great deal of his early work; ('I have got enough torn-up pictures to roast an ox by', 11 April 1835, to Frank Stone . (Qty: 1)
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