Sketches for The Tempest
Artist
Herbert Meyer
American, 1882 - 1960
MediumPencil, watercolor, gouache on paper
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineBequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh
Object number1978.41.105
Description8 small (c.5 x 4) thumbnail sketches of larger pictures of scenes from the tempest. Each is on a small square of paper, which is affixed to a larger grey board. The sketches are arranged in two rows, 4 over 4.Going from upper left to lower right:
Act I scene I: a small pink figure, dark navy and black background
Act I Scene II: two figures illuminated in a dark room between two lit pillars
Act II Scene I: two figures in the foreground with a hill and tree in background
Scene b Act II: figure in orange in front of a brown mountain and blue sky
Act III Scene. : orange and gray figure standing between two pillars
Scene b Act III: three figures, two sit on a bench while the other stands, with trees and water in the background
Unlabeled: A group of figures standing among three trees with a looming mountain shape in background
Unlabeled: Figures surround a circle shape drawn on a green floor, left figure is nude with wild red hair, central figure is dark and stands in a wide beam of light.
On View
Not on viewCollections
19th century
Eliot Porter
19th century
mid 18th century
