Touchstone and Audrey
Datec.1890
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsObject/Work: 2000 x 1520 mm
ClassificationsArtworks/Commemorations/Photographs
Terms
Object numberGA0931
DescriptionTaken from the beginning of Act 5 Scene 1 from 'As you like it' by William Shakespeare.Appears to depict the words:
'But Audrey, there is a youth here in this forest lays claim to you'
The Forest.
Enter Touchstone & Audrey
Touchstone:
we shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.
Audrey:
Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old gentleman's saying.
Touchstone:
A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile Martext. But Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays claim to you.
Audrey:
Ay, I know, who 'tis, he hath no interest in me in the world; here comes the man you mean.
Touchstone:
It is meat and drink to me to see a clown; by my troth, we that have good wits have much to answer for, we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.
Enter William
(Christopher Jordan 10/09)
On View
Not on viewCollections
C Wiener
1878
1900-1933
c.1880 - 1912
