Scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest

Scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest, also known as Ferdinand courting Miranda (c. 1736–1738) is an oil painting by the English painter William Hogarth.

Miranda is depicted sitting on a throne made of shells and coral, distracted and thus spilling from a bowl of milk that she has been feeding to a lamb.

To the right is the misshapen monster Caliban, with a bat above his head, grimacing and drooling as he stamps on a dove.

[2] The painting was bought from the Earl of Macclesfield's widow in 1766 by Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet,[2] and was hung on the walls of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, for over two centuries by the Winn Baronets and then their relatives the Barons St Oswald.

Nostell Priory was acquired by the National Trust in 1953, but the former owners retained most of the contents.