Henry Fuseli
1741-1825
Skamandros Tries to Prevent Achilles from Slaying the Trojan. Verso: faint sketches of a female nude and another head
16 5/8 x 20 1/2 inches (424 x 517 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, with white chalk, on blue paper; verso: graphite.
1975.44
Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Homer, "Iliad", XXI, 211-247.
Homer, "Iliad", XXI, 211-247.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and black ink at lower left: "W. Blake".
Associated names
Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Homer. Iliad.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Homer. Iliad.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 264.
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog, Zurich-Munich, 1973, no. 1357, repr.
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog, Zurich-Munich, 1973, no. 1357, repr.
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Century Drawings
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