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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa22
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Title
Ariel [graphic] / Henry Fuseli.
Created/published
ca. 1800-1810.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 92.7 x 72 cm
Associated name
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, artist.
Material base
canvas
Note
Versions: A drawing in the Öffentliche Kunstsammerlung, Basel, of Fair Margaret and Sweet William from an old English ballad repeats the painting's lower group of Ferdinand and Miranda (see Schiff 1973, no. 1555)
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Schiff 1973, vol. 1, pp. 563-64 (no. 1208); Schiff and Viotto 1977, no. 234; Schiff and Weinglass (forthcoming), as Ariel Riding on the Bat, below Ferdinand and Maranda.
Provenance
Provenance: Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Auctioneers, 8 King St., St. James's Square, London, 4 May 1922, lot 24, 28 guineas (£29.8.0), Rosenbach acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth", (no catalogue), 1951; Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Cenutury English Painting", 1976-77, no. 5; California Academy of Sciences, and six other cities in the traveling exhibition organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, "Shakespeare: The Globe and the World," 1979-1982, repr. in color on p. 189; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "The Tempest" (no catalogue), 1951; 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 28 (Plate 1)
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa22
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa22
Folger-specific note
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Folger accession
cs1086