Wednesday, September 25, 2013

A Winter's Tale: Imagining Intimacy



Mathilde Odier (1815-1904). Watercolor of Cymbeline bound into a copy of The plays and poems of William Shakspeare. Leipsic: Ernest Fleischer, 1833. 

 Byam Shaw, c. 1900, "Guard Me Beseech Ye"

Louis Rhead, 1918, "Softly unloosing the bracelet from her arm" 

Samuel Begg, 1896, Cymbeline, act II, scene II: "O, sleep thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!" 

Jacob Tonson, 1709, Plate from Rowe's edition of Shakespeare


Anonymous print, 19th c. Innogen in bed
 

James Stow, c. 1770, Innogen in bed 

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