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Ferdinand and Miranda (from William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest')

Frederick Richard Pickersgill (1820–1900)

Touchstones Rochdale

Ferdinand and Miranda

Image credit: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service

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Ferdinand and Miranda are characters from Shakespeare’s play 'The Tempest' who fall in love and marry. This painting is a reflection on the Victorian trend for literary subjects in art, otherwise known as ‘a novel in a rectangle’. Anecdotal, sentimental, humorous scenes, often accompanied by lengthy quotations, found a ready audience in the newly-rich, novel-reading Victorian middle classes. Pickersgill specialised in this genre and exhibited fifty paintings at the Royal Academy between 1839 and 1875, many on literary subjects.

Touchstones Rochdale

Rochdale

Title

Ferdinand and Miranda

Date

1863

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 74 x W 52 cm

Accession number

31

Acquisition method

gift from Robert Taylor Heape, 1902

Work type

Painting

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Frederick Richard Pickersgill

1820–1900

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