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The Morning Steals Upon the Night, Melting the Darkness

Edmund Gill
1820-1894

The Morning Steals Upon the Night, Melting the Darkness

1854
4 15/16 x 7 inches (126 x 179 mm); mounted on sheet: 14 x 10 1/16 inches (355 x 255 mm)
Brush and brown ink and wash, touched with white, on paper.
1986.2104:8

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from accompanying cover sheet.
Drawing illustrates a passage from Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "The tempest".
Forms part of the portfolio of 11 drawings entitled, "Shreds from Shakespeare Illustrated by Members of the Crayon Club", dated 1854 (see 1986.2104).
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated "E. Gill 1854" at lower right.
Summary

Drawing shows the morning light breaking over a wooded valley, with trees in the foreground at right.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department