Collections

• Elizabeth Romney, by descent, to 1894;
• Romney sale, Christie’s, 25 May 1894, part lot 200;
• with Agnew’s;
• Norman Clark Neill (1885-1935);
• Mrs A. Buxton, to 1959;
• Leger Galleries, acquired from the above;
• Richard & Julia Rush, acquired from the above in 1961;
• And by descent to the Richard H. Rush Charitable Trust;
• Rush sale, Sotheby’s, London, 23 November 2006, lot 68;
• Lowell Libson Ltd, purchased at the above sale;
• Private collection, UK, purchased from the above, to 2023;
• Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.

Exhibitions

• London, Kenwood, George Romney, 1734–1802: Paintings and Drawings, June 1961, no.37;
• Nottingham University Art Gallery, Shakespeare in Art, 1961, no.34;
• New York, Finch College Museum of Art, The Richard H. Rush Collection, 25 February – 25 April, 1971, no.41;
• Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library: ‘Designs from Fancy’, George Romney’s Shakespearean Drawings, 1998, no.82;
• Bath, The Holburne Museum, long-term loan, 2019-23

Literature

• Rev. John Romney, Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney, 1830, pp.128, 234;
• Humphrey Ward and William Roberts, Romney, a Biographical and Critical Essay, with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, 1904, vol. II, pp.195–196, under ‘Titania Reposing with her Indian Votaries’;
• Arthur B. Chamberlain, George Romney, 1910, pp.189–191;
• Elizabeth Johnston, George Romney, 1734–1802, Paintings and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, 1961, no.37;
• A.M. Frankfurter, ‘Rediscovering Romney as a Fantastick’, Art News, September 1961, no.34;
• Yvonne Romney Dixon, The Drawings of George Romney in the Folger Shakespeare Library, PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 1977, pp. 80-81,255, 265;
• Yvonne Romney Dixon, ‘Designs from Fancy’: George Romney’s Shakespearean Drawings, exhibition catalogue, 1998, pp.78, 143, 195–96, 198;
• David Cross, A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney, 2000, p.192;
• Alex Kidson, George Romney 1734–1802, exhibition catalogue, 2002, pp. 12, 227;
• Yvonne Romney Dixon and Alex Kidson, ‘Romney Sketchbooks in Public Collections’ Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 8, 2003, pp. 27, 30-312, 50;
• Alex Kidson, ‘The Midsummer Night’s Dream Paintings of George Romney, in George Romney’s Titania and Her Attendants’ in ed. Lowell Libson, George Romney’s Titania and Her Attendants, London, 2011, pp.11-19;
• Suzanne E May, ‘Sublime and Infernal Reveries’: George Romney and the Creation of an eighteenth-century History Painter, PhD dissertation, John Moores University, Liverpool, 2007, vol. I, p160;
• Alex Kidson, ‘Late Romney, A Reappraisal, in ed. Guilland Sutherland, Windows on that World: Essays in British Art Presented to Brian Allen, New Haven and London, 2012, p.204;
• Alex Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven and London, 2015, vol. III, cat. no. 1741 and repr. on the dust-jacket;
• Roberta J. M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff, Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe, London, 2019, p.254 and 280