Watercolor with gouache, black ink, and scraping over graphite on thick, slightly textured cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured cream laid paper with contemporary drawn border
Dimensions:
Mount: 25 11/16 x 18 3/4 inches (65.2 x 47.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center, on mount: "If by your art, my dearest father, you have | Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them; | Oh! I have suffer'd | With those that I saw suffer; a brave vessel | Dash'd all to pieces."; lower right, on mount: "Tempest, 1st act"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1974
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
shouting | meteorology | waves (natural events) | pointing | books | shipwreck | man | sash | sitting | literary theme | dress | gesturing | robe | woman | storm | science | father | magician | daughter | rocks (landforms) | sea | magic | marine art | standing | ship | cave | cloak | plays by William Shakespeare | The Tempest, Act I, Scene II | The Tempest, play by William Shakespeare
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, p. 28, no. 71, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)