The Tempest, Act III, Scene 3 Caliban: “Sounds and sweet airs that give delight & hurt not”

by Edmund Dulac

$40,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

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Watercolor, pencil and ink on paper, signed “Edmund Dulac 08” lower left , additionally inscribed on verso: Sounds and sweet airs that give delight & hurt not. Act III Sc. III” and numbered 31. 15 x 9-7/8 in. Matted and framed. Provenance: Countess of Lytton. Exhibited: London, Leicester Galleries, 1908. Literature: Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest Hodder & Stoughton, 1908 , p. 58; Hughey, Edmund Dulac: His Book Illustrations, no. 19. Item #376452

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