JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741-1845)

Lot 35
10.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 35 | JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741-1845)
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$ 15 000 – 20 000
JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (1741-1845)
Callipyga: Mrs. Fuseli with her skirts lifted to her waist standing before a dressing table with phallic supports
inscribed in Greek (upper left)
pen and brown ink on laid paper
6 1/8 x 3 ½ in. (15.5 x 9 cm.)




Provenance

Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980); Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1986, lot 44.
with Hobart & Maclean, London, 1986.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1997, lot 59.
with Spink-Leger, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 June 2004, lot 79.
with Nicholas Lott, Bath, from whom purchased for the present collection.



Literature

M. Balmanno, 'Henry Fuseli, Esq., R.A.,' Pen and Pencil, 1858, p. 200.
G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825, Zurich and Munich, 1973, no. 1681, illustrated II, p. 531.
C. Keay, Henri Fuseli, 1974, pl. 69.
G. Schiff and P. Viotto, L'Opera Completa di Fuseli, Milan, 1977, no. D113.
P. Webb, The Erotic Arts, 1983, 152-153, pl. 108.
D. B. Brown, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings [in the Ashmolean Museum], Oxford, 1982, vol. IV, p. 304.
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Market Place, 1987, in Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1, 1988, pp. 4 & 10.
D. Schoenherr, Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, 1988, pp. 244, 245, note 15, pl. 1 (dated as '1810-1820').
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Market Place, 2002, in Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, 2003, p. 130.
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Market Place, 2004, in Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2005, p. 140.



Exhibited

Hamburg, 1974-1975, no. 198.
London, Tate Gallery, Henry Fuseli 1741-1825, 1975, no. 172.
Paris, Musée du Petit Palace, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 1975, no. 195.
London, Hobart & Maclean, The Forbidden Library, 1986, no. 22 as 'Woman by a Fireplace'.
Stuttgart, Johann Heinrich Fussli: Das Verlorene Paradies, 1997, no. 139.
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