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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Shakespeare Illustrated
Although many of the figures are rendered in unconventional garb, lacking traditional scarlet ‘S’ and bat-motley - still, this is a nice site. (via Maud).
I do wish some of the images were larger (oh well.) I like the fact that Blake actually tried to paint ‘pity, like a new-born babe/Striding the blast’. I hadn’t seen that one before. Go and find something good and come back and tell me about it.
Comments
Great site. Thanks.
Turner’s Queen Mab’s Cave is beautiful, all the more so in light of subsequent Victorian artists’ mawkish rendition of fairies (Richard Dadd, for instance).
Given that Queen Mab is, ‘In shape no bigger than an agate-stone/On the fore-finger of an alderman,’ are we to assume it’s a relative cave, which is to say a hole in a rock pool? In which case the castle in the distance could well be one of those found in aquaria?
Thanks Anthony. I think I like the Fuseli’s best (of the one’s I’ve checked so far). Nice Ariel and Macbeth-related ones, although some of the links are sadly broken.