Art, literature & history
The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Comedy and Tragedy
1783
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 11.1 x 17.5 cm (4 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.152
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Romney. The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Comedy and Tragedy. George Romney; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Romney,_The_Infant_Shakespeare_Nursed_by_Comedy_and_Tragedy,_1783,_NGA_76133.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Comedy and Tragedy — George Romney. 1783.
Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 11.1 x 17.5 cm (4 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.152. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.