Cleveland Museum of Art

And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green

Arthur RackhamLinkedCulture matchlcp-39533fbe6d40

Date: 1908
Medium: pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board
Culture: England, 20th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 132089

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This drawing is one of 40 made by Arthur Rackham to illustrate William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream . It depicts the confrontation between Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, that takes place in the woods outside of Athens in act 2, scene 1. The artist painted a stormy sky looming over the magical couple to echo the story's mood. Rackham worked during a golden age of book illustration in England, around the turn of the 20th century, and the images he produced for literary works influenced future productions of Shakespeare's work. Arthur Rackham was one of the first book illustrators to take advantage of color halftone printing, augmenting his ink drawings with subtle washes of transparent hues.

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Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Don Hunter
Provenance: ?-1954: Mrs. Don Hunter, Albany, GA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1954-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH