And Now They Never Meet in Grove or Green
Medium
pen and black ink and watercolor with scraping and minute touches of white gouache on artist's illustration board
Dimensions
38.6 × 27 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Don Hunter
Accession Number
1954.651
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About this artwork
This drawing is one of 40 made by Arthur Rackham to illustrate William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. 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 ...