- Title:
- Prospero Summoning Ariel
- Additional Title(s):
Prospero, Ariel and Miranda
Prospero, The Magician- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1800
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, graphite, gouache, white chalk, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches (31.6 x 20.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in graphite lower right in monogram: "WB"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5645
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cape | cave | flying | literary theme | magic | magician | man | plays by William Shakespeare | robe | spirit | staff | The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Miranda (character in The Tempest)
Ariel (character in The Tempest)
Prospero (character in The Tempest) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11293
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art in the 1770s (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-09-12 - 1979-11-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 38, 104, no. 98, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 144, no. 146, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : catalogue of the drawings and designs by the late William Young Ottley, Esq. F.A.S. : 10 May 1838, Sotheby's, London, 1838, p. 3, lot 14, Art Sales Catalogues Online [ORBIS]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 54-5, no. 42, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]