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Where Should this Music be?

Edward Dalziel
1817-1905

Where Should this Music be?

1854
7 x 4 15/16 inches (179 x 126 mm); mounted on sheet: 14 x 10 1/16 inches (355 x 255 mm)
Watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2104:9

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title and attribution from accompanying cover sheet.
Drawing illustrates a passage from Act 1, Scene 2 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).
Summary

Drawing shows Ferdinand standing with Ariel and a host of spirits hovering in the air above him.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Ray, Gordon N. The illustrator and the book in England from 179-1914. New York : Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 92.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department