Titania's Awakening from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV

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Titania's Awakening from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV

Artist Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825)

Artist Thomas Ryder (British, 1746-1810)

Publisher John Boydell

Date1803

Dimensionsimage: 43.5 x 58.7 cm (17 1/8 x 23 1/8 in.)
sheet: 53.3 x 69.9 cm (21 x 27 1/2 in.)
frame: 76.2 x 96.5 cm (30 x 38 in.)

MediumStipple engraving on cream wove paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Edward T. Hill in honor of Giancarlo Fiorenza

Object number

2003.45

Not on View

DescriptionOne stipple engraving on cream wove paper by Thomas Ryder and Thomas Ryder, Jr. after Henry Fuseli's painting No. 3 in the "Shakespeare Gallery" in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur ([1785-1790)] (1803; Schiff 754).

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, New Works on Paper, Dec. 2005 - Mar. 5, 2006.

Toledo Museum of Art, Shakespeare's Characters: Playing the Part, September 2, 2016-January 8, 2017.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Weinglass, D.H., Prints and Engraved Illustrations by and After Henry Fuseli: A Catalogue Raisonné (Hants: Scolar Press, 1994): 133-35. cf: Schiff, Gert. Henry Fuseli 1741-1825 (London: Tate Publications, 1975). cf: Knowles, John. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (Millwood, NY: Kraus, 1982). cf: Rusche, Harry. Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery (Atlanta: Emory University, 1998). also at http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Boydell.html cf: Rusche, Harry. Henry Fuseli (Atlanta: Emory University, 1998). also at http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Fuseli.html