A Midsummer Night's Dream

Multiple artists/makers

1870

Not on view

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Provenance

Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare (British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon)
Illustrator: Paul Konewka (German, Greifswald 1841–1871 Berlin)
Engraver: William H. Morse (American, active 1851–82)
Publisher: Roberts Brothers (Boston, Massachusetts)
Date: 1870
Medium: Illustrations: commercial process and engraving
Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 5/16 x 11/16 in. (25.1 x 18.5 x 1.7 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
Object Number: 1979.571.59
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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