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This drawing is one of 40 made by Arthur Rackham to illustrate William Shakespeare's comedy <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>. It depicts the confrontation between Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, that takes place in the woods outside of Athens in act 2, scene 1. The artist painted a stormy sky looming over the magical couple to echo the story's mood. Rackham worked during a golden age of book illustration in England, around the turn of the 20th century, and the images he produced for literary works influenced future productions of Shakespeare's work.
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132089
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And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green
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132089
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drawing
title
And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green
description
This drawing is one of 40 made by Arthur Rackham to illustrate William Shakespeare's comedy <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>. It depicts the confrontation between Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, that takes place in the woods outside of Athens in act 2, scene 1. The artist painted a stormy sky looming over the magical couple to echo the story's mood. Rackham worked during a golden age of book illustration in England, around the turn of the 20th century, and the images he produced for literary works influenced future productions of Shakespeare's work.
date
1908
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q80023780
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1340
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 38.6 x 27 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
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England, 20th century
accession
1954.651
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pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board
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And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green, 1908. Arthur Rackham (British, 1867–1939). Pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board; sheet: 38.6 x 27 cm (15 3/16 x 10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Don Hunter, 1954.651
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artist’s illustration board
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DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed and dated, in pen and black ink, at lower right: Arthur Rackham 08
didYouKnow
Arthur Rackham was one of the first book illustrators to take advantage of color halftone printing, augmenting his ink drawings with subtle washes of transparent hues.
citations
citation
Shakespeare, William. <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream: With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, R.W.S. </em>London: William Heinemann, 1908.
citation
Shakespeare, William. <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em>. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003.
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Reproduced: p. 32
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 136-37, 147, no. 47; Reproduced: p. 137
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Gift of Mrs. Don Hunter
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2026-05-29 06:48:26.850000
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132089
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DR - British
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pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board
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