"Through the house give glimmering light" [graphic] / Arthur Rackham, '08.

"Through the house give glimmering light" [graphic] / Arthur Rackham, '08.

[1908]

1 drawing : ink and color wash ; 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in., 26.5 x 19 cm

paper

History: Drawing was executed as an illustration to the 1908 edition of Midsummer night's dream, published by William Heinemann in London and Doubleday in New York. It appeared as a three-color reproduction, tipped on to a leaf facing p.132. The reproduction measured 7 x 4 15/16 in. Drawing was exhibited along with Rackham's other illustrations for this edition, at Leicester Galleries in London, 1908 and in the Folger travelling exhibit 'Shakespeare, the Globe and the World' 1979-1982 (reproduced on p.152 of the catalog).

Folger copy: on wove paper, title from caption in printed volume. Executed on artists' illustration board, the core of which has been removed by Conservation. The verso of the board bore the following pencil notations, upper left corner: '1426' ; center in orange pencil: 16x20 ; bottom center: Heineman/col/as others/Rec 7 July/wd 17 July ; bottom left: 2/9947 ; bottom right: 9. Signed in ink on recto, lower right. Photocopies of removed mount board in curatorial file.

Provenance: Purchased by the Folgers from Maggs Bros., June 1925.

Published Work: Shakespeare, William. Midsummer night's dream ... London : Heinemann ... 1908.

Subject: Drawing shows the interior of a mansion in brown and green washes. Oberon and Titania stand in the foreground at the head of a parade of fairies who trail out behind them and up the stairs in the background. All of the fairies hold wands with glimmering lights at their tips. Subject is taken from Midsummer night's dream, Act V, Sc. 1.

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Great Britain -- England.

ART Box R122 no.6 (size L)

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