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The three witches, half-length in profile to left, each pointing with outstretched arm to the left of the picture.
There are several replicas of this painting; one (probably the original exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783) in the Kunsthaus, Zurich, another, slightly cut down, is in the North Carolina Museum of Art. It was lithographed by John Raphael Smith in 1785. There are two studies for the painting, one in black chalk and one in watercolour in the Witt Collection in the Courtauld lnstitute of Art, London.
Title
'Macbeth', Act I, Scene 3, the Weird Sisters
Date
c.1783
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 75 x W 90 cm
Accession number
STRPG:A: 1993.49
Acquisition method
bequeathed, 1892
Work type
Painting
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 6BB England
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