'Poet, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene i'
Date:
1775
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, published state
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 13 3/4in. (43.2 x 34.9cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved inscriptions: within image at center top, "POET"; within image at bottom, left, "Published May 20 1775 by J MORTIMER, Norfolk Street, STRAND"; within image at bottom center, "The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rowling -- Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n -- And as imagination bodies forth -- The forms of things unknown the Poet's pen -- Turns them to shape and gives to airy nothing -- A local habitation and a name."; within image at bottom right, "Midsummer Night's dream, Act V, Scene I."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.12121
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
wreath | quill | literary theme | A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare | poet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)