- Title:
- Prospero Watching Ferdinand and Miranda
- Additional Title(s):
- Verso: Composition Reversed
- Date:
- ca. 1840
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite with black chalk and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (21.9 × 18.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed on verso in graphite, lower left: "T Von Holst"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.50
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cell | cloak | correctional institution | curtains | daughter | drapery | father | figure study | gesture | hood | literary theme | lovers | men | nudes | plays by William Shakespeare | prison | sash | spying | steps | The Tempest, Act III, Scene I | watching | woman
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Ferdinand (character in The Tempest)
Miranda (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:10273
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The Romantic Art of Theodor von Holst (Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, 1994-06-11 - 1994-07-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Romantic Art of Theodor von Holst (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., 1994-05-05 - 1994-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Shakespeare in Western Art (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Shakespeare in Western Art (Kintetsu Museum of Art, 1993-01-09 - 1993-02-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Shakespeare in Western Art (Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1992-11-28 - 1992-12-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Shakespeare in Western Art (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-10-29 - 1992-11-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 32, 119, no. 87, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA) [YCBA]