Technique: Oil on canvas
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John Anster Fitzgerald, Titania and the Changeling - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Private collection
Date: Unknown
Technique: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic, 28.6 x 44.5 cm
The present watercolour would appear to be inspired by a scene from Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as such is unusual, in Fitzgerald's oeuvre. Most of the older fairy painters, whether pioneers like Reynolds, Fuseli (Titania and Bottom, 1786-9, Tate Gallery, London) and Blake or more senior Victorians such as Landseer, (Scene from a Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania and Bottom, 1848-1851, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne), Noël Paton (The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania, 1847, and The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh) and Richard Dadd erived their subjects from literary sources. The most popular being Shakespeare's two plays with supernatural themes, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
Fitzgerald's most characteristic works represent a significant break with this tradition, showing fairy subjects which seem to be essentially his own invention.
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