Watercolor with brown and black ink and scraping over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, textured, beige card with additional inscribed sheet mounted lower center
Dimensions:
Mount: 23 1/16 x 18 5/8 inches (58.5 x 47.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower center, on mount: "Blossom, speed thee well! | Weep I cannot | But my heart bleeds ; and most accurst am I, | To be by oath enjoin'd to this; Farewel! | The day frowns more and more; Thou art like to have | A lullaby too rough;" in graphite, lower center, on mount: "Winters Tale"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1982
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
coast | desert | storm | literary theme | shore (landform) | gesturing | sadness | princess | man | science | grief | trunk | children | sleeping | waves (natural events) | boat | sail | papers | standing | ship | rocks (landforms) | blanket | baby | marine art | cloak | meteorology | servant | The Winter's Tale, play by William Shakespeare | plays by William Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene III
Associated Places:
Czech Republic | Bohemia | Europe
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. 73, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)