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THE ALBERT ZUCKERMAN COLLECTION
ROBERT HUSKISSON (NOTTINGHAM 1832-1854 LONDON)
Titania asleep 'There sleeps Titania some time of the night Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight'A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I.
Details
ROBERT HUSKISSON (NOTTINGHAM 1832-1854 LONDON)
Titania asleep
'There sleeps Titania some time of the night
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight'
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I.
oil on panel
11 ¾ x 14 in. (30 x 35 cm.)
Titania asleep
'There sleeps Titania some time of the night
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight'
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I.
oil on panel
11 ¾ x 14 in. (30 x 35 cm.)
Provenance
The Earl of Harewood (The Harewood Charitable Trust), Harewood House, Leeds, Yorkshire; Christie's, London, 26 July 1985, lot 229, as 'Titania and Oberon'.
The Forbes Collection; Christie’s, London, 19 February 2003, lot 2, where purchased for the present collection.
The Forbes Collection; Christie’s, London, 19 February 2003, lot 2, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
C. Wood, Fairies in Victorian Art, London, 2000, p. 70, illustrated p. 71 and detail p. 70.
Exhibited
Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; Kobe, Daimaru Museum; and Ibaraki, Tsukuba Museum of Art, The Victorian Imagination, 2 January – 20 July 1998, no. 6.
Engraved
By Fred Heath for The Art Union, 1848, vol. X, pp. 306-7 (the S.C. Hall version).
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