14/08/2018 SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD William Shakespeare Anonymous C17th portrait Angelica Kauffmann The Birth of Shakespeare and Fame Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb 1770s www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Henry Fuseli Infant Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1805 George Romney Shakespeare attended by Nature Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling and the Passions 1790s www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Martin Droeshout Title Page of the First Folio 1623 Richard Westall Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1825 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 1
14/08/2018 Gerard Johnson Shakespeare monument Stratford c 1623 Henry Wallis Gerard Johnson carving Shakespeare’s Dr William Sterling funerary monument 1857 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Johann Zoffany David Garrick and his wife by their Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey designed by William Kent 1740 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling Temple to Shakespeare 1762 www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Richard Dadd Titania Sleeping 1841 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling Richard Dadd Contradiction, Oberon and Titania 1858 www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 2
14/08/2018 George Romney Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow 1792 Sir Joshua Reynolds Two Versions of Puck 1789 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk George Romney Titania, Puck and the Changeling 1793 Dr William Sterling Henry Fuseli Two Versions of Puck 1810s Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk William Etty Titania and the Fairies c 1830 Thomas Woolner Puck 1847 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 3
14/08/2018 Robert Huskisson The Midsummer Night’s Fairies 1847 William Etty Titania c 1830 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Sir Joseph Noel Paton Oberon and the Mermaid 1883 Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Quarrel Between Oberon and Titania 1850 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Nereid Monument from Lycia c. 380 BC, Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek British Museum Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek C3rd BC 4
14/08/2018 Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1789 Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania 1847 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Henry Fuseli Titania Awakening 1789 Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1790 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Sir Edwin Landseer Titania and Bottom 1848 Dr William Sterling Bottom and Titania, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington DC www.williamsterling.co.uk 5
14/08/2018 Arthur Rackham Bottom 1908 Paul Gervais (France) La Folie de Titania 1897 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham Midsummer Night’s Dream Midsummer Night’s Dream 1908 1908 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Daniel Maclise The Disenchantment of Bottom 1832 William Blake Oberon, Titania, Puck and Fairies Dancing 1786 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 6
14/08/2018 Washington Allston Hermia and Helena 1818 John Simmons Scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream 1873 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Robert Smirke John Simmons Lysander Declaring his Passion for Helena 1825 Hermia and Lysander 1870 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk William Heath Robinson Illustrated Midsummer Night’s Dream 1914 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 7
14/08/2018 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Gilbert Bayes Characters From Shakespeare on Saville Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue (now Odeon Cinema) 1931 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 8
14/08/2018 Theseus and Pirithuos abducting Antiope c. 500 BC, Louvre Theseus and Hippolyta on Red Figure Dinos c. 440 BC, British Museum Lapith and Centaur from the Parthenon c. 435 BC, British Museum Pyramus and Thisbe Mosaic from the House of Dionysus Paphos C2nd-3rd AD Pyramus and Thisbe Mural, Pompeii Pyramus and Thisbe Woodcut illustration 1473 9
14/08/2018 Pyramus and Thisbe in Caxton’s Ovid 1480 Pyramus and Thisbe by Cranach C16th, Bamberg Thisbe running from the Lion at the well from an illustrated Ovid of 1606 Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe by Poussin 1651, Frankfurt William Waterhouse Thisbe 1909 Dr William Sterling Thisbe killing herself from an illustrated Ovid of 1606 www.williamsterling.co.uk 10
14/08/2018 Cadmus and the Dragon C5th BC, Louvre Cadmus and the Dragon C6th BC, Louvre Achilles and Hector Krater c. 480 BC, British Museum Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon by van Harlem 1588 , National Gallery Achilles Killing Hector by Rafael Tegeo c. 1825 Achilles dragging the body of Hector C6th BC, British Museum 11
14/08/2018 Aeneas and Ascanius with the pigs c. 140-150 AD, British Museum Ajax and Achilles gaming c. 490 BC, Metropolitan Museum Hector Astyanax and Hecuba c. 370-360 BC, Ruvo The Departure of Ajax Red Figure kylix C5th BC Eric Gill Title Page Troilus and Criseyde 1927 Achilles bandaging Patroclus c. 500 BC, Staatliche Museen, Berlin 12
14/08/2018 Cressida in the Romain de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure c. 1160 C14th mss Cressida in A History of the Destruction of Troy 1287 by Guido della Colonne mss c. 1325 John Opie Sir Edward Poynter Portrait of a lady as Cressida 1888 Cressida 1800 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Jean-Michel Moreau (France) Henry Fuseli Troilus and Cressida 1783 Cressida with Diomedes 1804 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 13
14/08/2018 Illustration from Tales from Shakespeare, McLoughlin Bros. 1890 Angelica Kauffmann Troilus sees Cressida with Diomedes 1789 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Hubert-François Gravelot Illustrations for Timon of Athens 1744 Timon of Athens Act I, Scene 2 Timon's prodigality 1802 and Act IV, Scene 1 Timon Renouncing Dr William Sterling Society 1803, engravings by R. Rhodes and Isaac Taylor after paintings by Henry Howard www.williamsterling.co.uk Johann Heinrich Ramberg Drawing of Timon and the gold Act IV, Scene 3 William Blake after Henry Fuseli - Timon and Alcibiades 1790 14
14/08/2018 Félix Auvray Alcibiades with the Courtesans 1833 Alcibades being taught by Socrates by François-André Vincent 1776 Michele de Napoli Death of Alcibiades c. 1839, Naples National Archaeological Museum Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrates dragging Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure 1791 Wyndham Lewis Timon of Athens c. 1930 Dr William Sterling Tyre www.williamsterling.co.uk 15
14/08/2018 Triumphal Arch Tyre Gold Coin and Marble Bust of Antiochus III the Great of Syria reigned 222-187 BC Tyche (fortune) of Antioch Roman copy of original of C1st BC by Eutychides, Vatican Tetradracm of Antiochus III after 197 BC with Apollo on reverse The Murder of Antiochus III, mss of 1413-1415, Getty Roman terracotta of kissing couple from Tarsus, Louvre 16
14/08/2018 Thomas Stothard John Graham Mr Cooper Marina Singing for Pericles as Pericles 1796 1825 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk Aphrodite and Adonis by Aison c. 410 BC, Louvre Adonis’s monument Etruscan c. 250 -100 BC, Vatican Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis c. 1620, Metropolitan Museum Dr William Sterling Venus and Adonis with Cupid by Annibale Carracci c. 1595, Prado www.williamsterling.co.uk 17
14/08/2018 Venus and Cupid mourning the dead Adonis by Cornelis Holsteyn c. 1655, Frans Hals Museum Death of Adonis by Giordano 1684-1686, Medici Palace Florence The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Edition William Hogarth Scene from the Tempest 1730 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk William Hamilton Prospero, Ariel and Sleeping Miranda c 1790 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling Henry Fuseli Miranda, Prospero, Ariel and Caliban 1797 www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 18
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