[Frontispiece and title page to act 2 of The tempest]

Folger bibliographic ID: 242506
Folger call number: Use item's call number to search Digital Image Collection (direct link to come)
Folger holdings ID: 305434

Frontispiece depicts Stephano, with bottle in hand, coming upon Trinculo and Caliban laying on the ground covered by a cloth. The title page depicts two island landscapes, one of which contains Caliban with a bundle of wood on his back

General notes

Title devised by cataloger Date based on Bell's own dating of some of his other drawings for The tempest These drawings were done for Bell's decorated edition of Shakespeare's Tempest, published by Freemantle & Co. in 1901. For a copy of the published work see: PR 2833 1901 Sh.Col Drawings are on two sheets which have been pasted together so they appear in the same format (frontispiece on left, title on right) as they do in the published book Also available as a digital reproduction

Extended title: [Frontispiece and title page to act 2 of The tempest] R.A. Bell

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stephano (Fictitious character : Shakespeare) Trinculo (Fictitious character) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Caliban (Fictitious character)

artist: Bell, Robert Anning, 1863-1933
depiction: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616