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
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...