The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born

{{Short description|Painting by Henry Wallis}}

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| year= 1853

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The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born is an 1853 oil painting by the British artist Henry Wallis.

Østermark-Johansen p.214 It depicts the room in Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-Upon-Avon in Warwickshire as it looked in the mid-Victorian era.Upstone p.62 Conrad p.73 Wallis was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been acquired in 1955.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wallis-the-room-in-which-shakespeare-was-born-t00042