Watercolor, approximately 9 x 13 inches. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England.

Hatherell painted twenty-two watercolors to illustrate an edition of Romeo and Juliet published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1912. In Act III, Scene iii, Romeo has just learned from the Friar that he is to be banished and falls weeping. The Nurse enters and asks, "Where's Romeo?"

Nurse: O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,
Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?

Friar: There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.

Nurse: O, he is even in my mistress' case,
Just in her case! O woful sympathy!
Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,
Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.
Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:
For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;
Why should you fall into so deep an O?