Date based on Bell's own dating of some of his other drawings for The tempest
Drawing is for the decorative frame to the first page of Act 1, complete with illuminated initial "B", reproduced in 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
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