- Title:
- Puck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Date:
- ca. 1850
- Medium:
- Oil on millboard
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches (26.4 x 31.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.6
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.6FR
- Subject Terms:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare | butterflies | costume | dream | fairies | fairy tale | flowers (plants) | forest | hats | literary theme | mushrooms | music | musical instruments | nudes | plants | snails | snails | theater (discipline) | wings | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Puck (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream) - Access:
- Not on view
- Exhibition History:
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Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Shakespeare in Art (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2003-07-16 - 2003-10-19)
Shakespeare in Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2003-02-15 - 2003-06-15)
Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)
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Jane Martineau, Shakespeare in art, Merrell, London, New York, 2003, pp. 234, 235, no. 83, PR2883 .S52513 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Jane Martineau, Shakespeare nell'arte, Arte, Ferrara, 2003, pp. 324, 325, no. 81, PR2883 .S525 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:216
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Joseph Noel Paton, 1821–1901, British, Puck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", ca. 1850
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