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Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban, from The Tempest
George RomneyLinkedCulture matchlcp-d068a68746a6
- Date
- c. 1786
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 116239
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Credit line
- Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
- Provenance
- Private Collection, London [invoice in curatorial file]. Sold by Jane Roberts Fine Arts Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1991.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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