Caliban (Illustration to Shakespeare's The Tempest) (circa 1938)

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin

lithograph

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Caliban (Illustration to Shakespeare's The Tempest) (circa 1938)

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Physical Object Description:

Caliban, illustration to Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'; feral figure seated on stone with bundle of wood slung over shoulder. c.1939 Lithograph. Signed on stone. Titled: "Caliban in 'Shakespeare Visconer'.

Technique:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

32 x 25 cm

Accession Number:

1939,0730.71

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1938; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1939

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Mythological creatures, Shakespeare

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