Romeo stabs Paris at the bier of Juliet [graphic] / Henry Fuseli.
1809
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa25
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Title
Romeo stabs Paris at the bier of Juliet [graphic] / Henry Fuseli.
Created/published
ca. 1809.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 71.2 x 92 cm
Associated name
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
The Morning Chronicle, 29 April 1809 ("Mr. Fuseli has two pictures from Romeo and Juliet in his usual style."); Knowles 1831, vol. 1, p. 415; Schiff 1973, vol. 1, p. 322 (no. 1206); Schiff and Viotto 1977, no. 231; Kestner 1986, p. 14, repr. in color p. 11; Schiff and Weinglass (forthcoming)
Source of acquisition
E. Parsons & Sons, Fine Art Dealers in Books, Prints and Paintings, 45 Brompton Rd., London SW3 [1927]; Fine Art Book and Print Sellers and Picture Dealers [1926 and 1929]; Fine Art Book and Print Sellers and Dealers in Pictures and Original Drawings by the Old Masters [1929], February 1926, 50 guineas (£52.10.0)
Exhibited
Exhibited: 'Eliz. View of Italy,' Mar-Jun.93; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct.28, 1993-Feb.14, 1994; London, Royal Academy, 1809, no. 149, as "The Encounter of Romeo and Paris in the monument of the Capulets. 'Romeo. Wilt though provoke me? etc.'"; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Benjamin West: His Times and His Influence", 1950 (also see Art in America 38 [December 1950]), no. 41, dated 1789; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth", (no catalogue), 1951; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Painting", 1976-1977, no. 6; 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. 151.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 27 (Plate 12)
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa25
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa25
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs1506