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The Seven Ages of Man (painting series)
1798–1801 series of paintings by Robert Smirke / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world's a stage from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII. The stages referred are: infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon and old age.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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The set of paintings are in pen and ink and oil on panel, and measure: height: 381 mm (15 in); width: 505 mm (19.88 in). They are now in the Yale Center for British Art, though usually not on display. In 1796, Robert Smirke agreed to paint William Shakespeare's The Seven Ages of Man for John and Josiah Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.[7]
Painted between 1798 and 1801, they depict the journey of life in its various forms.[8] They were produced for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery,[9][10] and engravings by Peltro William Tomkins, John Ogborne, Robert Thew, Peter Simon the Younger and William Satchwell Leney based on Smirke's paintings were included in the gallery's folio edition of Shakespeare's work.[11]