unknown artist, eighteenth centuryFormerly attributed to Alexander Runciman, 1736–1785, British
Title:
Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 3/4 x 36 3/8 inches (70.5 x 92.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.7
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
costume | island | theater (discipline) | sleeping | landscape | spirit | man | staff (walking stick) | light | literary theme | bright | women | mollusks | forest | The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare | ghost -- fiction
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 1-2, 83, no. 5, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 36-37, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)