Balthazar sings: "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; Men were deceivers ever," illustration for Act II, Scene iii, Much Ado About Nothing

Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852–1911, M.A. (Hon.) 1897)

Medium

Gouache on composition board

Dimensions

14 3/16 × 21 1/8 in. (36.1 × 53.7 cm)

Credit Line

Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1937.1004

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Edwin Austin Abbey Estate, 1937; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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Additional information

Edition

Published in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 83, no. 496 (September 1891), p. 493

Inscriptions

Signed at LR, in gouache: E.A. Abbey / 1890

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