In this scene from William Shakespeare’s 'Richard III', the villainous, humpbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester, brazenly attempts to woo the Lady Anne, the widow of a man he has recently stabbed to death, as she walks in the funeral procession of her father-in-law, King Henry VI, another of Richard’s victims. [url=http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/61273]Read m...
Size:
133.7 x 265.1 cm (52 5/8 x 104 3/ 8 in.)
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Public Domain, Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
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