#john simmons

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The Morning Star

John Simmons (English, 1823–1876)

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Titania Sleeping in the Moonlight Protected by Her Fairies, Watercolor and gouache (1866) Victorian academicist John Simmons (British, 1823–1876) captures a pivotal scene from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream. The watercolor depicts Titania, the Fairy Queen, resting under an arch of convolvulus and honeysuckle that symbolizes love in Victorian flower language.

While her fairies guard her, Oberon and Puck hide nearby, though out of view, to administer a magic potion that forces her to love the first creature she sees. Simmons blended the eroticized aesthetic of Romantic ballet with meticulous botanical realism to create a hallucinatory forest idyll. Loc. Private Collection. Dim. 86.4 x 74.3 cm (34 x 29.3 in)

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The Honey-Bags Steal from the Humble Bees / And from the Night Tapers their Waxen Thighs / And Light them at the Fairy Glow-Worm’s Eyes, (Detail), (n/d), by John Simmons (British, 1823 – 1876)

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Stepping, Chicago, Photo by John Simmons, 2014

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Kathleen Cleaver, Nashville, Photo by John Simmons, 1970

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Train Watching, Nashville, Photo by John Simmons, 1970

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Boy with Cap, Nashville, Photo by John Simmons, 1972

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Mirror White’s Fish House, Nashville, Photo by John Simmons, c. 1970