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Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban, from The Tempest
Provenance
Private Collection, London [invoice in curatorial file]. Sold by Jane Roberts Fine Arts Ltd., London, to the Art Institute, 1991.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Publications
Humphrey Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonne of His Works (London, 1904). Patricia Jaffe, Drawings by George Romney from the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1977). Laura Nelke, Alderman Boydell,’s Shakespeare Gallery (Chicago, 1978), no. 21.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Romney / English, 1734-1802
- Date
- c. 1786
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 39 × 57.4 cm (15 3/8 × 22 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1991.220
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Portrait of a Mother and Her Son (Probably Jane, Duchess of Gordon, and her Son George, First Marquess of Huntley)
George Romneyc. 1778 · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005439
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