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Shakespeare's Seven Ages
This fan leaf contains a series of oval images illustrating a famous passage in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (Act II, Scene IV), spoken by the melancholic courtier Jaques to Duke Senior. The text begins "All's the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages..." Since the imagery here relates only to male subjects, Wilson designed a second fan which traces the life stages of girls and women titled "The Female Seven Ages" (see 38.91.20).
Artwork Details
- Title: Shakespeare's Seven Ages
- Artist: After George Wilson (British, active 1795–1801)
- Publisher: Sarah Ashton (British, active London 1770–98)
- Date: January 1, 1796
- Medium: Stipple engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/16 × 18 1/4 in. (25.6 × 46.4 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture, Fans
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938
- Object Number: 38.91.21
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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