Detail View: LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection: [Two drawings illustrating quotations from the witches' speech in Macbeth, act 1, scene 3, mounted with two prints illustrating scenes from the play] [graphic].
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Digital Image File Name:
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36484
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Source Call Number:
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ART Box S528m1 no.8 (size L)
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Source Title:
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[Two drawings illustrating quotations from the witches' speech in Macbeth, act 1, scene 3, mounted with two prints illustrating scenes from the play] [graphic].
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Source Created or Published:
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[1877?]
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Title (Hamnet):
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[Two drawings illustrating quotations from the witches' speech in Macbeth, act 1, scene 3, mounted with two prints illustrating scenes from the play] [graphic].
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Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
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[1877?]
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Physical Description (Hamnet):
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2 drawings : watercolor and ink ; irreg. images 214 x 152 mm. or smaller.
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Physical Description (Hamnet):
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2 prints : wood engraving ; irreg. images 84 x 70 mm. or smaller.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Witches -- 19th century, depicted.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth. Act 1. Scene 3, depicted.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Book illustrations -- 19th century.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Drawings -- 19th century.
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Subject (Hamnet):
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Prints -- 19th century.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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F. D., attributed name.
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Associated Name (Hamnet):
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J. D., attributed name.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Artist: Unable to locate the monogram in Classified directory of artists signatures, symbols and monograms or in Monograms of Victorian and Edwardian artists and cannot identify artist.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Drawings have been backed to a second sheet of paper (shadows of line engraving or line drawing can be seen when items are held up to a light) and inlaid to folio size sheets which also contain each a small vignette wood engraving relating to Shakespeare's Macbeth. Both of the watercolors are executed on wove paper and are titled in gothic lettering as a border design around the illustration. They both bear a monogram [drawing], either JD or FD. The two sevens on either side of the central letter presumably refer to the date as 1877.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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History: Drawings appear to have been designed as book illustrations as they are executed within borders and contain captions. FSL has no illustrated Macbeth or edition of the Works from 1877 which contain similar illustrations. There are no entries under "D" in Jaggard that would indicate these illustrations were included.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Provenance: Items have been removed from the Macbeth volume of a 44 vol. set of Shakespeare which has been extra-illustrated and housed in blue board portfolios. The set is shelved in the art vault. The provenance of it is unknown.
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Notes (Hamnet):
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Subject: The first item (ART Box S528m1 no. 7) pictures a haggard witch holding a staff, standing before a fisherman's hut. A woman sits on a barrel at the door holding chestnuts in her apron and looking up at the witch who reaches her hand toward the woman. The caption reads "A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, and mounch'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd: - give me, quoth I: aroint thee, witch, the rump-fed ronyon cries." The second item pictures a three-teated witch in a sieve on a turbulent ocean. She holds a staff in both hands as though rowing with it. The caption lettered in the border design reads "Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger: but in a sieve I'll thither sail, and like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do." The subject and quotations are taken from act I, sc. 3 of Macbeth, the three witches rhyming on the blasted heath before Macbeth arrives.
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Call Number (Hamnet):
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ART Box S528m1 no.8 (size L)
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