Midsummer Night's Dream

1856

Samuel Cousins

Artist, British, 1801 - 1887

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 65.1 x 94.2 cm (25 5/8 x 37 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 71.7 x 10.9 cm (28 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
    overall (mat size): 81.3 x 109.2 cm (32 x 43 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Whitman 1904, no. 201, State undesc

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1904

  • Whitman, Alfred. Samuel Cousins. London, 1904.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Painted by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A.; lower center: New York, Published by M. Knoedler, Broadway, Jun. 1st 1858, and Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York / London, Published Jany. 1 1858 by Henry Graves & Compy. Printsellers to the Queen & Pall Mall; lower right in plate: Engraved by Samuel Cousins, R.A. / Midsummer Night's Dream
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Wikidata ID

Q76357126

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