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Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, left of center, in pen and brown ink: "No. 27"; upper right, in graphite: "Early study for a Shipwreck"
Provenance
Alfred A. de Pass (1861–1953), London and Falmouth [stamps (Lugt 108a) recto, lower right, in black (twice)]; presented to the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, 1928; sold, Christie’s, Feb. 22, 1966, lot 33 (one of five in lot), to Agnew’s, London. Private collection, from 1966. Sold by Agnew’s, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Nov. 15, 2002 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
London, Agnew’s, "Twenty Five Drawings by George Romney 1734–1802," June 11–28, 2002, cat. 14. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 72, cat. 43 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Publications
Yvonne Romney Dixon, Designs from Fancy: George Romney’s Shakespearean Drawings (Seattle, 1988), p. 88, pl. 52, as The Flood. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 72, cat. 43 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1015
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005935
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