Scene from A Midsummer Night – (Edwin Landseer) Previous Next


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Date: 1851

Size: 82 x 133 cm

Museum: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Edwin Landseer’s Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom illustrates the third act of William Shakespeare’s famous comedy. We see Titania, Queen of the Fairies, at the moment when, drugged with a love potion, she becomes enchanted with the artisan Bottom, who has been magically turned into an ass.Text by Dr Ted Gott from 19th century painting and sculpture in the international collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003, p. 35.

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