Gustave Doré’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from about 1870 is even grander, with a full moon shining through the trees of the wood. Gustave Doré (1832-1883), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c 1870), further details not known. ![]() Robert Huskisson’s The Midsummer Night’s Fairies (1847) shows a simpler version of a similar scene. © The Tate Gallery and Photographic Rights © Tate (2017), CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported), Robert Huskisson (1820-1861), The Midsummer Night’s Fairies (1847), oil on mahogany, 28.9 x 34.3 cm, The Tate Gallery (Purchased 1974), London. Framing that scene are toadstools, morning glory flowers, and an arch of bats. The naked queen has just fallen asleep at the mouth of a grotto. Richard Dadd’s Titania Sleeping from about 1841 is another elaborate example of faery painting with its intricately detailed human-like creatures. ![]() Richard Dadd (1817–1886), Titania Sleeping (c 1841), oil on canvas, 59.7 x 77.5 cm, Private collection. In the first of these two articles showing paintings of the first act of this play, the fairies attending Titania had just sung her to sleep, allowing Oberon to drop the herbal juice onto her eyelids, which would make her fall in love with the first creature she saw when she woke up.
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