# "King Lear," Act I, Scene I, in Edwin Austin Abbey's contemporaries

Edwin Austin Abbey painted this in 1898, aged 46. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1898
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 54 1/4 x 127 1/4 in. (137.8 x 323.2 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 13.140
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Edwin Austin Abbey](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edwin-austin-abbey), American, 1852–1911

1 works in the collection.

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