Midsummer Night's Dream, 1856

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 65.1 x 94.2 cm (25 5/8 x 37 1/16 in.)

sheet: 71.7 x 10.9 cm (28 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
overall (mat size): 81.3 x 109.2 cm (32 x 43 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Whitman 1904, no. 201, State undesc

Accession Number

2001.118.8

Artists / Makers

Samuel Cousins (artist) British, 1801 - 1887

Sir Edwin Landseer (artist after) British, 1802 - 1873

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A.; lower center: New York, Published by M. Knoedler, Broadway, Jun. 1st 1858, and Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York / London, Published Jany. 1 1858 by Henry Graves & Compy. Printsellers to the Queen & Pall Mall; lower right in plate: Engraved by Samuel Cousins, R.A. / Midsummer Night's Dream
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Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

Exhibition History

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1904: Whitman, Alfred. Samuel Cousins. London, 1904.