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Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog (from 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' by William Shakespeare)

Augustus Leopold Egg (1816–1863)

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog

Image credit: Leicester Museums and Galleries

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The reference is to 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' Act IV, Scene 4, in which Launce is sent to deliver a dog to Silvia as a present from his master but the dog misbehaves, steals from her plate and is ordered out of the room. Afterwards Launce explains that Proteus' dog had been stolen and that he offered his own in its place. Here Silvia is seen with her father, the Duke, at the dining table and Launce is holding the dog.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Leicester

Title

Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog

Date

1849

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 56 x W 80.5 cm

Accession number

L.F9.1891.0.0

Acquisition method

purchased at Christie's, 1891

Work type

Painting

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Augustus Leopold Egg

1816–1863

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