14/08/2018 1 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk William Shakespeare Anonymous C17th portrait SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Angelica Kauffmann The Birth of Shakespeare and Fame decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb 1770s Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk George Romney Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions 1790s Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Henry Fuseli Infant Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1805 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Richard Westall Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1825 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Martin Droeshout Title Page of the First Folio 1623
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Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
William Shakespeare Anonymous C17th portrait
SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Angelica Kauffmann The Birth of Shakespeare and Fame decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb 1770s
Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
George Romney Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions 1790s Dr William Sterling
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Henry Fuseli Infant Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1805
Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Richard WestallShakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1825
Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Martin DroeshoutTitle Page of the First Folio 1623
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Gerard Johnson Shakespeare monument Stratford c 1623
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Henry Wallis Gerard Johnson carving Shakespeare’s funerary monument 1857
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Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey designed by William Kent 1740 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Johann Zoffany David Garrick and his wife by their Temple to Shakespeare 1762
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Richard Dadd Titania Sleeping 1841 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Richard Dadd Contradiction, Oberon and Titania 1858
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Sir Joshua Reynolds Two Versions of Puck 1789Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
George Romney Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow1792
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George Romney Titania, Puck and the Changeling 1793 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Henry Fuseli Two Versions of Puck 1810s
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Thomas Woolner Puck 1847 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
William EttyTitania and the Fairies c 1830
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William Etty Titania c 1830 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Robert Huskisson The Midsummer Night’s Fairies 1847
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Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Quarrel Between Oberon and Titania 1850Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Sir Joseph Noel Paton Oberon and the Mermaid 1883
Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek C3rd BC Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, GreekNereid Monument from Lycia c. 380 BC, British Museum
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Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania 1847
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Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1789
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Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1790 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Henry Fuseli Titania Awakening 1789
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Sir Edwin Landseer Titania and Bottom 1848
Bottom and Titania, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington DC
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Paul Gervais (France) La Folie de Titania 1897 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Arthur Rackham Bottom 1908
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Arthur RackhamMidsummer Night’s Dream1908
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Arthur RackhamMidsummer Night’s Dream1908
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Daniel MacliseThe Disenchantment of Bottom 1832
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William Blake Oberon, Titania, Puck and Fairies Dancing 1786
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Washington Allston Hermia and Helena 1818
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John Simmons Scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream 1873
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John Simmons Hermia and Lysander 1870
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Robert SmirkeLysander Declaring his Passion for Helena 1825
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William Heath Robinson Illustrated Midsummer Night’s Dream 1914Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
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Gilbert Bayes Characters From Shakespeare on Saville Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue (now Odeon Cinema) 1931
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Theseus and Hippolyta on Red Figure Dinos c. 440 BC, British Museum
Theseus and Pirithuos abducting Antiope c. 500 BC, Louvre
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
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Pyramus and Thisbe in Caxton’s Ovid 1480Pyramus and Thisbe by Cranach C16th,Bamberg
Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe by Poussin 1651, Frankfurt Thisbe running from the Lion at the well from an illustrated Ovid of 1606
Thisbe killing herself from an illustrated Ovid of 1606 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
William Waterhouse Thisbe 1909
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Cadmus and the Dragon C6th BC, Louvre
Cadmus and the Dragon C5th BC, Louvre
Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon by van Harlem 1588 , National GalleryAchilles and Hector Krater c. 480 BC, British Museum
Achilles dragging the body of Hector C6th BC, British MuseumAchilles Killing Hector by Rafael Tegeo c. 1825
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Aeneas and Ascanius with the pigs c. 140-150 AD, British Museum Ajax and Achilles gaming c. 490 BC, Metropolitan Museum
The Departure of Ajax Red Figure kylix C5th BC
Hector Astyanax and Hecuba c. 370-360 BC, Ruvo
Achilles bandaging Patroclus c. 500 BC, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Eric Gill Title Page Troilus and Criseyde 1927
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Cressida in A History of the Destruction of Troy 1287 by Guido della Colonne mss c. 1325
Cressida in the Romain de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure c. 1160 C14th mss
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Sir Edward Poynter Cressida 1888
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John Opie Portrait of a lady as Cressida 1800
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Jean-Michel Moreau (France) Troilus and Cressida 1783
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Henry Fuseli Cressida with Diomedes 1804
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Angelica Kauffmann Troilus sees Cressida with Diomedes 1789
Illustration from Tales from Shakespeare, McLoughlin Bros. 1890
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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 Society 1803, engravings by R. Rhodes and Isaac Taylor after paintings by Henry Howard
Johann Heinrich Ramberg Drawing of Timon and the gold Act IV, Scene 3 William Blake after Henry Fuseli - Timon and Alcibiades 1790
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Alcibades being taught by Socrates by François-André Vincent 1776 Félix Auvray Alcibiades with the Courtesans 1833
Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrates dragging Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure 1791
Michele de Napoli Death of Alcibiades c. 1839, Naples National Archaeological Museum
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Wyndham LewisTimon of Athensc. 1930
Tyre
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Triumphal Arch Tyre
Gold Coin and Marble Bust of Antiochus III the Great of Syria reigned 222-187 BC
Tetradracm of Antiochus III after 197 BC with Apollo on reverse
Tyche (fortune) of Antioch Roman copy of original of C1st BC by Eutychides, Vatican
Roman terracotta of kissing couple from Tarsus, Louvre
The Murder of Antiochus III, mssof 1413-1415, Getty
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Thomas StothardMarina Singing for Pericles1825
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John Graham Mr Cooper as Pericles 1796
Aphrodite and Adonis by Aison c. 410 BC, Louvre
Adonis’s monument Etruscan c. 250-100 BC, Vatican
Venus and Adonis with Cupid by Annibale Carracci c. 1595, PradoDr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis c. 1620, Metropolitan Museum
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Venus and Cupid mourning the dead Adonis by Cornelis Holsteyn c. 1655, Frans Hals MuseumDeath of Adonis by Giordano 1684-1686, Medici Palace Florence
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The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Edition
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William Hogarth Scene from the Tempest 1730
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William Hamilton Prospero, Ariel and Sleeping Miranda c 1790
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Henry Fuseli Miranda, Prospero, Ariel and Caliban 1797
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Joseph Wright Ferdinand and Miranda in Prospero’s Cell 1800 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk
Edmund Dulac Prospero And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune 1908
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Edmund Dulac Prospero Ye Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves 1908
Robert Alexander Hillingford, The Nine Worthies from Love’s Labour’s Lost
Tarquin and Lucretia 1571 by Titian, Fitzwilliam Museum
Lucretia by Rembrandt 1666, Minneapolis Institute of Art