Watercolor and black ink with gum over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 × 8 1/4 inches (15.2 × 20.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.2.1
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
fairies | mushrooms | moon | literary theme | talking | nudes | toga | woods | meadow | crowns | vines | flowers (plants) | thorns | woman | man | servants | supernatural | night | gesture | A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I | plays by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Victorian Fairey Painting (University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1998-02-28 - 1998-05-24)Francis Danby ARA (Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1988-11-05 - 1989-01-21)Francis Danby ARA (Tate Britain, 1989-02-15 - 1989-04-09)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 (RISD Museum, 1979-03-28 - 1979-05-13)Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1979-06-05 - 1979-09-02)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 25, no. 81, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 17-8, 117, no. 45, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 25, no. 81, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)