Henry Fuseli

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Triumph of Death: Three Skeletons Invading a Bacchanal Orchestrated by a Magician or an Evil Demon

1770–71

Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper (left sheet); graphite, pen and black ink, and brush and reddish-gray wash, on ivory laid paper (right sheet), joined and laid down on ivory Japanese paper, edge mounted on cream card

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Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (recto and verso)

1770–78

Oil on canvas

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Male Figure with Left Arm Raised Seen from the Back, and Fragment of Old Man

1770/75

Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

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Odin in the Underworld

1770/72

Brush and gray wash and graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink and red chalk, on cream laid paper

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Sketch for 'Dido on the Funeral Pyre' (recto); Erotic Sketch of Man and Woman (verso)

c. 1781

Oil paint over charcoal (recto), and black chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper

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Sketch for "Oath on the Rütli" (recto), Female Figure (verso)

1779–81 (recto); 1785–90 (verso)

Oil on canvas

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Sleeping Woman with a Cupid

1780/90

Etching in red-brown on ivory laid paper

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Thetis Mourning the Body of Achilles

1780

Brush and brown and brownish-red wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper

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Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess)

1781

Charcoal and black chalk, with stumping, heightened with white chalk and touches of red-orange pastel, on grayish-tan laid paper

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Theodore Meets in the Wood the Specter of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti, Chasing with Mastiffs His Former Disdainful Mistress

1783

Charcoal with stumping, and brush and black wash, over graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

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Milton Dictating to His Daughter

1794

Oil on canvas

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The Spirit of Knowledge

1798

Black chalk and brush and gray wash on ivory laid paper

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A Woman Sitting by the Window (“Evening Thou Bringest All”), from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

1802, published 1803

Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper

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Study for Inquisition, Illustration to Columbiad

c. 1806

Oil paint, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on stipple etching, etching, and aquatint in black on cream wove paper

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Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower

1806

Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and red wash, over traces of graphite, on grayish-ivory laid paper

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Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons

c. 1816

Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

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Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side

c. 1818

Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper

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Aided by Eeriboia, Hermes Carries Off the Exhausted Ares from the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (recto); Sketch of One of the Sleeping Sons of Aloeus (verso)

1819

Graphite and brush and black wash, with touches of charcoal (recto), and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper

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