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Lot 21

Augustus Leopold Egg
(British, 1816-1863)
Scene from Taming of the Shrew

28 September 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Augustus Leopold Egg (British, 1816-1863)

Scene from Taming of the Shrew
signed and dated 'Augt Egg. 1860.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
68.5 x 117cm (26 15/16 x 46 1/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester
Private collection, UK

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1860, no.275
Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887

The present lot depicts a scene from Act IV, Scene I of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, where Petruchio reacts in disgust at the burned meat presented to him by his servants:

Petruchio: What's this? Mutton?
First Servant: Ay
Petruchio: Who brought it?
Peter: I
Petruchio: 'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat
What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?
How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,
And serve it thus to me that love it not?
Theretake it to you, trenchers, cups, and all;
[Throws the meat, & c. about the stage]

Egg exhibited a number of works at the Royal Academy based on Shakespeare's plays.

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