Title
Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel
1797
Artists
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Details
- Date
- 1797
- Media category
- Materials used
- stipple engraving
- Dimensions
- 49.5 x 63.0 cm platemark; 51.5 x 72.3 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Don Mitchell Bequest Fund 2009
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8.2009
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jean-Pierre Simon
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 IV, Boydell Shakespeare
During 12 years of exile, Prospero accompanied by his daughter Miranda has ruled by magic over an enchanted island inhabited by spirits and the strange, misshapen, Caliban. Prospero is shown castigating Caliban, whose bestial nature is revealed by his pointed ears, claw-like nails and hooked nipples. Many of Fuseli’s canvases have deteriorated badly because of his faulty or experimental techniques. Of this composition, the only surviving fragment is the head of Prospero, now in the City of York Art Gallery.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
The Tempest, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 10 Jun 2016–26 Nov 2016
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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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, (illus.). no. 117
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