Faery Mab [graphic] / by Henry Fuseli.
1815
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Title
Faery Mab [graphic] / by Henry Fuseli.
Created/published
ca. 1815-1820.
Description
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 70 x 91 cm
Associated name
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, artist.
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906, former owner.
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906, former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Versions: Fuseli executed his first painting of Faery Mab in 1793 (see Schiff 1973, vol. 1, no. 909). This work was executed for his Milton Gallery, which first opened in 1799. He executed the same subject in a vertical format in 1795-97 (see Schiff 1973, no. 910)
Engravings: The 1793 version was engraved by W. Raddon in 1834.
Title from Pressly.
Engravings: The 1793 version was engraved by W. Raddon in 1834.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Knowles 1831, vol. 1, p. 416; Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Fusslis Milton-Galerie, Zurich and Stuttgart, 1963, p. 94, pl. 50; Schiff 1973, vol. 1, p. 603 (no. 1498); Schiff and Viotto, 1977 no. 303; Schiff and Weinglass (forthcoming)
Provenance
Provenance: Fuseli sale, Christie's 28 May 1827, lot 8, this or another version as "Queen Mab, from Milton's Allegro," £23.14.6.
Source of acquisition
Burdett-Coutts sale, Christie's, 4 May 1922, lot 26, as "Queen Mab from Romeo and Juliet," 56 guineas (£58.16.0), Rosenbach acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb.15, 1994; International Exhibition, 1862? (this is the puzzling citation in the 1922 Christie's sale catalogue); Mead Art Building, Amherst College, Benjamin West: His Times and His Influence, 1950, no. 42, as "Queen Mab from Romeo and Juliet"; Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth", (no catalogue), 1951; Washington, D.C. Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Painting", 1976-77, no. 7, as Faery Mab. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Henry Fuseli: Paradise Lost," 27 September 1997-11 January 1998, no. 68; Kunsthaus Zürich, "Füssli the Wild Swiss," 14 October 2005 through 8 January 2006, no. 119; Tate Britain, "Gothic Nightmares," 15 February through 1 May 2006, no. 107.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 29 (Plate 13)
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library FPa23
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa23
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