Subject Terms: sleeping / Associated People: Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet

James Smetham, 1821–1889, British

Imogen and the Shepherds, 'Cymbeline,' Act IV, scene II

ca. 1874

Not on view

unknown artist, eighteenth century

Prospero, Miranda and Ariel, from "The Tempest"

ca. 1780

Not on view

Thomas Stothard, 1755–1834, British

Oberon and Titania from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act IV, Scene i

1806

Not on view

George Romney, 1734–1802, British

Lear Awakened by Cordelia

ca. 1774

George Romney, 1734–1802, British

Lear Awakened by Cordelia

between 1774 and 1775

George Henry Harlow, 1787–1819, British

Queen Katherine's Dream

1807

Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British

Lysander Awakening to See Helena

1825

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British

Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

1776

Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British

Lady Percy Watching the Sleeping Hotspur

1781

Mary Hoare, 1744–1820, British

Antigonus Disposing of Perdita

ca. 1781

attributed to Richard Cosway, 1742–1821, British

Othello and Desdemona, 'Othello', Act V, Scene II

ca. 1805

William Marshall Craig, 1763 or 1764–1829, British

The Princes in the Tower

ca. 1820

Print made by Henry J. Townsend, 1810–1890, British

Where the Bee Sucks. The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, Ariel on a Hammock of Convolvulus

1853

James Heath, 1757–1834, British

"Then go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns"

1802