The Enchanted Island, Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 1)
originally published 1797; reissued 1852
Medium
Stipple engraving and etching
Dimensions
image: 16 15/16 x 23 1/4 in. (43.1 x 59 cm) sheet: 23 x 28 11/16 in. (58.4 x 72.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
John O. Hamlin Bequest, 1976
Accession Number
1976.653.81
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
George Romney|John & Josiah Boydell|Benjamin Smith|William Shakespeare · 1734–1802
George Romney (1734–1802) was a British portrait painter who, alongside Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, formed the triumvirate of great English portraitists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Born in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, he received his early training from the itinerant portrait painter Christopher Steele before moving to London in 1762. Romney quickly establishe...