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Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban, from The Tempest

A work made of graphite on ivory laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of graphite on ivory laid paper.

Date:

c. 1786

Artist:

George Romney
English, 1734-1802

About this artwork

What appears to be a single multi-figured composition on this sheet are, in fact, two variant studies (divided by a vertical line right of center) for the shipwreck scene from Shakespeare’s comedy The Tempest.
On the left side of the sheet, Miranda, daughter of the magician Prospero, implores her father to stop the storm he has unleashed. A few vertical lines and a pair of heads in alternate positions suggest the figure of Prospero. To Miranda’s immediate right crouches the monster Caliban. On the sheet’s other half, Miranda clings to a more graphically developed Prospero. A curlicue at far right may indicate Caliban.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

George Romney

Title

Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban, from The Tempest

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1786

Medium

Graphite on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

39 × 57.4 cm (15 3/8 × 22 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment

Reference Number

1991.220

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