The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)

Henry Fuseli|John & Josiah Boydell|Peter Simon|William Shakespeare|Shearjashub Spooner

first published 1797; reissued 1852

Attribution

After|Originally published| | |Reissued by Henry Fuseli|John & Josiah Boydell|Peter Simon|William Shakespeare|Shearjashub Spooner | | | | Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London|British, 1786–1804|British, London ca. 1764–1813 Paris|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon|American, Brandon, Vermont 1809–1859 Plainfield, New Jersey

Medium

Stipple engraving; fourth state of four

Physical dimensions

image: 16 7/8 x 23 1/16 in. (42.9 x 58.5 cm) sheet: 20 1/16 x 25 1/2 in. (51 x 64.7 cm)

Credit line

Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942