Items matching shakespeare

Ariel

C. W. SHARPE, SCULPT.; H J. TOWNSEND, PINXT. Ariel, the spirit of wind, is bound to serve Prospero, in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” and is here drawn as a miniature naked wingéd boy lying on the [...]

Keywords: nudity, cherubs, bare feet, fairies, shakespeare, spooky

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Added: 2004-07-19

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There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)

This is the central image from There Sleeps Titania, with the architectural arch removed. There is also a magnified detail so you can see more clearly the fabulous technique of one of the greatest eng [...]

Keywords: people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, shakespeare, spooky

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Added: 2009-10-22

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Puck and the Fairies

R. Dadd Pinxt., W. M. Lizars Sculpt.: Puck and the Fairies (Midsummer Night’s Dream) Puck here is depicted as a naked baby sitting raise up on a toadstool while all around the creatures of the forest [...]

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, fairies, bare feet, shakespeare, spooky

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Added: 2004-07-19

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There Sleeps Titania

“From the Midsummer Night’s Dream. R. Huskisson. Pinx. Fred Heath. Sculp. The engraving shows Titania as a nearly-naked woman with a tiara of pearls, surrounded by her female maids-in-waiting. In the [...]

Keywords: people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, shakespeare, spooky

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Added: 2009-10-22

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Ophelia.

(Hamlet.) A. Hughes, Pinxt. C. Cousin, Sculpt. Ophelia is perhaps Hamlet’s former lover. She sits by the river plucking flowers one by one and worrying them in her hands; shortly afterwards she drown [...]

Keywords: people, water, flowers, trees, forests, shakespeare

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Added: 2007-03-17

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King Lear and Fool in a Storm.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench’d our steeples.”

— Shakespeare

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.

Keywords: people, beards, weather, night scenes, spooky, shakespeare

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Added: 2006-10-28

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