- Title:
- Untitled
- Object name(s):
- Brief description:
- Black and white print showing Titania, Bottom and other characters from the play.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Content - other type:
- William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Credit line:
- Given by Wendy Sheridan
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2014HF0882/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 79
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 105.8
- Inscription content:
- Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, R.A. New York, Published by M.Knoedler, Broadway, Jan.y. 1st 1858; and Entered according to Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office of the DistrictCourt of the United States of the Southern District of New York. [London; Published Jan.y 1, 1858 by Henry Graves & Compy Publishers to the Queen-6 Pall Mall.]
- Inscription interpretation:
- Lettered
- Object history note:
- The original painting is in the Victoria Art Gallery, Melbourne and was one of several paintings on a Shakespearean theme commissioned by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
- Object name:
- Object number:
- E.95-2013
- Object production date:
- 1858
- Date - association:
- printed and published
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1858-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1858-12-31
- Object production person:
- Samuel Cousins
- Person's association:
- engraver
- Object production person:
- Sir Edwin Landseer
- Person's association:
- artist
- Object production place:
- London
- Place association:
- printed and published
- Physical description:
- Black and white print showing Titania, Bottom and other characters from the play.
- Reproduction number:
- 2014HF0882
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- Mezzotint
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- This mezzotint reproduces a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73). The original was painted in 1848 and is now in the Victoria Art Gallery, Melbourne. In the mid-19th century there was a ready market for prints after famous paintings, and many of Landseer's works were engraved. This untitled piece shows a scene from Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in which the labourer Bottom is transformed into a man with an ass's head, and the fairy queen Titania is bewitched into falling in love with him.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a2bf3ff5-0635-30d3-8eff-bf4d3b4694bd
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a2bf3ff5-0635-30d3-8eff-bf4d3b4694bd, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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