Title
Titania's awakening. A midsummer night's dream
1803
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Details
- Alternative title
- Titania's awakening
- Date
- 1803
- Media category
- Materials used
- stipple engraving
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 63.0 cm platemark; 52.0 x 69.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 424.2008
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Thomas Ryder
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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after Henry Fuseli
Works in the collection
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About
Vol I, plate XXI, Boydell Shakespeare
Titania, Queen of the Fairies, has just woken from her spell and tells Oberon of what she believes was a dream in which she was in love with an ass. Oberon points to Bottom asleep beside her and orders Puck to remove his ass’s head (it appears at the top centre of the print), thus revealing that her dream had been an enchanted reality. A group of ballerina-like fairies occupy the left side of the composition. On the right are gathered three evil fairies or witches, one of whom clutches her goblin offspring. In the foreground a group of tiny fairies use Bottom’s wooden clog as a boat.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Peter Raissis, Look, 'Diverse, individual and imaginative', pg.24-27, Sydney, Jul 2009, 26, cover (illus.). illustration is a detail
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A. E. Santaniello, The Boydell Shakespeare prints, 1979, (illus.).
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David H Weinglass, Prints and engraved illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli, 1994. no.119
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