Titania and Bottom with the Ass's Head from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Titania and Bottom with the Ass's Head from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Artist Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825)

Artist John Pierre Simon (British, before 1750-ca. 1810)

Publisher John Boydell

Date1796

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

2003.44

Not on View

DescriptionOne stipple engraving on cream wove paper by Pierre Simon II after Henry Fuseli's painting No. 2 in the "Shakespeare Gallery" in the Tate Gallery, London (1780-1790; Schiff 753).

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