Shakespeare, Tempest, Act I, Scene II, 1797

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series Title

Shakespeare Gallery

Medium

etching and engraving with stipple on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 50.2 × 63.7 cm (19 3/4 × 25 1/16 in.)

sheet: 59.5 × 74.2 cm (23 7/16 × 29 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Vogler in memory of his brother Donald J. Vogler

Accession Number

2017.53.31

Artists / Makers

Pierre Simon II (artist) British, 1750 or before - c. 1810

Henry Fuseli (artist) Swiss, 1741 - 1825

John Boydell (publisher) British, 1719 - 1804

Josiah Boydell (publisher) British, 1752 - 1817

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by H. Fuseli, R.d. / 6 / Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps... / ...Shall, for that vast of night that they may work.; lower center in plate: SHAKSPEARE. / Tempest. / Act I. SCENE II. / The inchanted Island before the Cell of Prospero__ Prosepro. Miranda. Caliban. & Ariel / Publish'd Sept. 29, 1797, by J. & J. BOYDELL, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & at No. 90, Cheapside; lower right in plate: ENgraved by I. P. Simon / All exercise on the; thou shalt be pinch'd... / ...Than bees that made them.

Provenance

(sale, Wechsler's Auctions, Washington, DC); Donald Vogler, Portland, OR; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Vogler, Donald
Vogler, Thomas
Weschler and Son, Adam A.