1812
oil
panel
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Shakespeare's Principal Characters is a 1812 oil by Thomas Stothard, depicting Visitation, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a group of people in old-fashioned clothes, standing together in a line. Some are holding objects, like a sword or a book. The colors are muted, with lots of greens and browns. In the background, there's a rainbow-colored light shining down, and some figures that look like they're floating in the air. It's a bit hard to make out what's going on, but it looks like a big gathering of people from different stories. If you want to learn more about paintings like this, you should check out the work of artist Thomas Stothard.
Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was a British painter, illustrator and engraver.
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