EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

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EDMUND DULAC (French, 1882-1953)

Full Fathom Five, from The Tempest

signed and dated Edmund Dulac/08 lower right and inscribed The Tempest Act I Scene II v.396/Ariel,/Full fathoms five thy father lies./of his bones are coral made/Those are pearls that were his eyes/etc etc. on the reverse--watercolor, gouache and pen and black ink on paper
17 1/8 x 11 3/8in. (43.5 x 28.9cm.)
Provenance
Dr. Marc Fitch
The Fine Arts Society, Ltd.



Literature
C. White, Edmund Dulac, New York, 1976, pp. 136-7, col. ill. p. 39
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Nov.-Dec. 1908, no. 23
London, The Fine Arts Society, Ltd., British Illustrators, June 1965, no. 102

Lot Essay

REPRODUCED
Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1908, col. pl. 13, facing p. 34
Illustrated London News, 28 Nov. 1908, lot 758

Hodder and Stoughton produced a series of Shakespearian plays in quatro volumes, each illustrated by a different artist (ie. As You Like It from Hugh Thompson and Twelfth Night from Heath Robinson): Dulac's The Tempest released in November, 1908 for the Christmas market, was also timed to coincide with Leicester Galleries exhibition of the
original watercolors. In 1910 Hodder and Stoughton published The Tempest calendar, with six plates from the 1908 volume reproduced, and the first exhibition of Dulac's work in America, at Scott and Fowles in New York in 1916 included illustrations from The Tempest.
We are grateful to Ann Conolly Hughey for her assistance in cataloguing this watercolor.