Edwin Austin Abbey, 1898 - King Lear, Act I, Scene I - fine art print

Original artwork description by The Metropolitan Museum of Art website (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Multitalented Edwin Austin Abbey, a Philadelphia-born illustrator, painter, and muralist, is best known for his historical imagery, especially Arthurian and Shakespearean subjects. A popular member of expatriate artistic circles, Abbey first visited England in 1878, and settled there permanently in 1882.In this dramatic scene from King Lear, Cordelia—Shakespeare’s heroine in the tragedy—stands at the center of the composition, having just been renounced by her father in the play’s opening scene.

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• Acrylic glass print: A glossy acrylic glass print, often labelled as a plexiglass print, will convert the original work of art into beautiful home decoration. In addition to that, the acrylic glass print forms a good alternative option to dibond or canvas fine art prints. Your work of art will be manufactured with the help of state-of-the-art UV print technology. With an acrylic glass art print contrasts and also small details become more exposed because of the granular gradation of the picture.
• Canvas print: The canvas print, which should not be confused with a canvas painting, is an image printed from an industrial printing machine. Additionally, a canvas print produces a lively and pleasant effect. A canvas of this work of art will let you turn your fine art print into a large work of art as you would see in a gallery. A canvas print has the advantage of being low in weight, which means that it is quite simple to hang up the Canvas print without any wall-mounts. Hence, a canvas print is suited for any kind of wall.
• Aluminium dibond: Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with an outstanding depth. For the Aluminium Dibond print, we print your artwork right onto the aluminium surface. The bright & white parts of the original work of art shimmer with a silk gloss but without the glow. Colors are luminous and bright, the fine details are very clear.
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The 19th century work of art King Lear, Act I, Scene I was made by Edwin Austin Abbey. The 120 years old piece of art was painted with the size: 54 1/4 x 127 1/4 in (137,8 x 323,2 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the North American artist as the medium of the painting. This artwork is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of George A. Hearn, 1913 (license - public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1913. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has an image ratio of 5 : 2, which implies that the length is two and a half times longer than the width.

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