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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa24
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Title
Puck [graphic] / Henry Fuseli.
Created/published
ca. 1810-1820.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 92 x 72 cm
Associated name
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Versions: The Boydell painting, its location now unknown, is reproduced in Schiff 1973, vol. 2, pl. 750.
On verso, remains of a painting of a group of courtesans.
Title from Pressly.
On verso, remains of a painting of a group of courtesans.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Schiff 1973, vol. 1, p. 495, (no. 751), dated ca. 1785-90; Schiff and Viotto 1977, no. 77, dated ca. 1785-90; Schiff and Weinglass (forthcoming), dated ca. 1810-1820.
Source of acquisition
Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 4 May 1922, no. 25, 25 guineas (£26.5.0), Rosenbach acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth" (no catalogue), 1951; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, (no catalogue), 1952; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Painting, 1976-1977, no. 9; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, and six other cities in traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," 1979-1982, repr. in color p. 155; Montgomery, Ala., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and two other cities in traveling exhibition, "A Brush with Shakespeare: The Bard in Painting, 1780-1910", 1985-1986, no. 25; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 25
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa24
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa24
Folger-specific note
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