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A Brush with Shakespeare: The Bard in Painting, 1780-1910
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94 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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March 19, 2012
I saw this exhibit when it came through Chicago, and it was great fun. The Victorians had some mighty good melodrama going in their Shakespearean paintings. It was wonderful to be able to see original works by Fuseli, Richard Dadd, Edwin Austin Abbey, and many others.
The catalogue is okay. The discussions are good. But most of the reproductions are smallish and black-and-white, and I'm very sorry to say the large color reproductions are not very good. Robert Smirke's painting of "Falstaff Examining Prince Hal" looks like it was shot under fluorescent light with the wrong kind of film; all the whites are a horrible pale blueish green. Wladyslaw Von Czachorski's "The Actors Before Hamlet," which is also used on the cover, is partly out-of-focus. The contrast is too high on Walter Howell Deverell's "Twelfth Night" and the colors are too bright and it is out-of-focus.
It is a shame, because the subject matter is interesting.
The catalogue is okay. The discussions are good. But most of the reproductions are smallish and black-and-white, and I'm very sorry to say the large color reproductions are not very good. Robert Smirke's painting of "Falstaff Examining Prince Hal" looks like it was shot under fluorescent light with the wrong kind of film; all the whites are a horrible pale blueish green. Wladyslaw Von Czachorski's "The Actors Before Hamlet," which is also used on the cover, is partly out-of-focus. The contrast is too high on Walter Howell Deverell's "Twelfth Night" and the colors are too bright and it is out-of-focus.
It is a shame, because the subject matter is interesting.
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