unknown artist, eighteenth century, Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest", ca. 1780
- Title:
- Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"
- Former Title(s):
- Prospero, Miranda and Ariel from 'The Tempest,' I, ii [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- 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
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.7FR
- Subject Terms:
- bright | costume | forest | ghost -- fiction | island | landscape | light | literary theme | man | mollusks | sleeping | spirit | staff (walking stick) | The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Prospero (character in The Tempest)
Ariel (character in The Tempest)
Miranda (character in The Tempest) - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:217
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Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30) [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]
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) [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) [YCBA]
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