The Shakespeare Illustration Archive Oppel-Hammerschmidt at the Mainz University Library is now completely accessible - in print and online:
“The University Library of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz today published the new digital Shakespeare Illustration Archive Oppel-Hammelschmidt on the Internet. The archive contains about 3,500 illustrations to all plays of the English dramatist from the very beginnings to the present. This hitherto unpublished part of the collection of the Shakespeare Illustration Archive, founded immediately after the Second World War by the Shakespeare and Goethe scholar Professor Horst Oppel, was donated to the Mainz University Library in 2005 on the condition that the archive material be digitalized and made available to the public. The collection contains photo reproductions of works of art, created by roughly 800 artists - among them such names as Hogarth, Chodowiecki, Füssli, Romney, Reynolds, Blake, Delacroix, Corot, Redon, Kaulbach, Piloty, Rossetti, Millais, Feuerbach, Makart, Corinth, Slevogt, and Lehmbruck - and carried out in a variety of techniques (paintings, watercolors, drawings, woodcuts, copper plate, steel, wood, and stipple engravings as well as etchings, lithographs, and others).”
Read the full announcement here.
Visit the archive here. Please note the archive website is in German. Despite this it’s pretty easy (for non-German speakers) to navigate and find what you’re looking for.
Wow, amazing. Altered Book Art available to buy from The Abandoned Attic on Etsy.
(Source: literatureismyutopia)
‘Shakespeare’s Comedy of the Tempest’ (1908), with illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
What a wonderful painting (and engraving by Benjamin Smith). That’s definitely Emma Hart, and is not the only time Romney used her as a model for Shakespeare related artworks.
George Romney
The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy (c. 1791)
96 x 114.8cm (37 13/16 x 45 3/16in)
Oil on unlined canvas
There are two, if not three versions of this painting, along with several sketches and studies for it, for example this cartoon.
Painted around the same time as Romney’s other work, Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions (1791-2).
George Romney
The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy
Romney employed Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, as a model for the figure of Comedy.
caliban
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Petruchio and Katherina by mistytang
DJL loves her some linocut, and Clare Melinsky (she of the latest Harry Potter revamps from Bloomsbury) sure can produce some gorgeous prints. Here are some of her designs for the new(-ish) Penguin Shakespeare editions. Unfortunately, as with the Harry Potter “signature” editions, the font and the formatting of the cover is a little bit of a let-down (shame on you, Penguin) but the prints themselves are to die for. Feast your eyes.
For the covers themselves, click ye;
http://www.penguinclassics.co.uk/static/cs/uk/10/minisites/shakespeare/index.html
iPad drawing for April Fool’s Day 2012.
He that has and a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.
Washington Allston
Hermia and Helena (1818)
Oil on canvas
30 3/8 x 25 1/4 in. (77.2 x 64.2 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Helena:
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.”Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream
Painting, Washington Allston, Hermia and Helena 1818
