EditorialOffering a drink. Midsummer Eve: a fairy tale of love. London, 1848. A dwarf, holding a bowl, offers a man to drink. Image taken from Midsummer Eve: a fairy tale of love. Originally published/produced in London, 1848. . Source: 12620.c.29, 38. Langua...
EditorialA poster advertising the following: W. Wallser's star and sensation ghost illusions.; The entertainment will commence with the laughable spectral sketch, entitled Sambo's ghost … To be followed by the Mystic chamber, or, Abode of ghosts!; To be foll...
EditorialExecution by burning. The manner of burning a woman convicted of treason. The Malefactor's Register; or, the Newgate and Tyburn calendar (New Newgate and Tyburn calendar). Containing the authentic lives, trials, accounts of executions and dying speeche...
EditorialTo make my small elves coats.' A scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. . A Midsummer Night's Dream ... With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Source: Cup.410.bb.55, facing page 40, 2nd image.
Editorial... Fairies away! We shall childe downright, if I longer stay.' A scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. . A Midsummer Night's Dream ... With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Source: Cup.410.bb.55, facing page 30.
Editorial"O Bottom, thou art changed." A scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. . A Midsummer Night's Dream ... With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Source: Cup.410.bb.55, facing page 58, 2nd illustration.
Editorial... ghosts, wandering jhere and there, troop home to churchyards.' A scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream. . A Midsummer Night's Dream ... With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London : William Heinemann, 1908. Source: Cup.410.bb.55, facing page 84.
EditorialPuck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Date/Period: Ca. 1850. Painting. Oil on millboard. Height: 264 mm (10.39 in); Width: 311 mm (12.24 in).
EditorialScene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom. Date/Period: 1848-1851. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 820 mm (32.28 in); Width: 1,330 mm (52.36 in).
EditorialOberon and Titania from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act IV, Scene i. Date/Period: 1806. Painting. Oil on paper mounted on board. Height: 146 mm (5.74 in); Width: 140 mm (5.51 in).
EditorialMidsummer Twilight. Dated: c. 1890. Dimensions: overall: 81.6 x 90.2 cm (32 1/8 x 35 1/2 in.) framed: 97.8 x 106.7 x 5.7 cm (38 1/2 x 42 x 2 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, Outing by Caspar Whitney, Midsummer Number, Artist, Publisher, Edward Penfield, Outing, American, Brooklyn, New York 1866?1925 Beacon, New York, Penfield, Edward, Outing, 1866, 1895, 1925, 1905.
EditorialLimestone figure wearing a mask, Archaic, 2nd quarter of the 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, H. 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm), Stone Sculpture, The figure wears a mask in the form of a bull's head and neck; the lower edge rests on the shoulders and chest....
EditorialDrawings and Prints, Print, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare, Act 4, Scene 1), Artist, Engraver, Subject, After, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Samuel Cousins, William Shakespeare, British, London 1802?1873 London, British, Exeter 1801?1887 London, Br...
EditorialSongs of Shakespeare, 1865, Illustrations: color lithographs (chromolithographs) with gold, 11 5/16 x 8 9/16 x 5/8 in. (28.7 x 21.7 x 1.6 cm), Books, One page of this lovely illustrated book is devoted to a song from A Midsummer Night?s Dream (act 2, s...
EditorialOberon and Titania from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act IV, Scene i Oberon and Titania from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' IV, i, Thomas Stothard, 1755-1834, British.
EditorialPuck and Fairies, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Elves and Fairies - "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act II, Scene II, Joseph Noel Paton, 1821-1901, British.
EditorialFanny Cooper as Helena, Athenian lady, in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," mid 19thC. Miss Cooper (1814-1872) was an English actress who performed at Sadler's Wells. Handcoloured lithograph from Thomas Hailes Lacy's "Female Costumes Historical,...
EditorialVillagers dancing around the bonfire for the feast of St. John the Baptist, midsummer. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.
EditorialJUNE. To June different names were given: "Weyd-monath," according to some, "because then the cattle began to weyd", that is, feed in the meadows, which at that time were usually marshes. According to others, it was called "Midsummer month." This was t...
EditorialQueen Titania and the donkey (Shakespeare, " Midsummer Night's Dream"). From the gymnasium-room of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the " Hermesvilla" in the outskirts of Vienna. Canvas, 170 x 230 cm.