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

Lot 105
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 105 | JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (ZURICH 1741-1845 PUTNEY HILL)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
JOHANN HEINRICH FÜSSLI, HENRY FUSELI, R.A. (ZURICH 1741-1845 PUTNEY HILL)

Design for Erasmus Darwin's 'The Temple of Nature': The Power of Fancy in Dreams (recto), with a study of embracing lovers (verso)

pencil, pen and grey ink, grey, blue and pink wash, heightened with white (recto), pencil (verso)

14 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (37.8 x 26.7 cm.)





Provenance

Susan, Baroness North.

Dr. Andreas Roth, Zumikon, Switzerland; Christie’s, London, 29 March 1963, lot 31 (480 gns to Spink).

G.D. Lockett, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

F. Hawcroft, 'English Drawings & Watercolours from the Lockett Collection', Old Water Society Club, XLV, 1970, pp. 35 and 41, pl. IX.

G. Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Zurich, 1973, vol. I, p. 593, no. 1423.

P. Tomory, The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli, London, 1972, p. 182.

D. H. Weinglass, Prints and Engraved Illustrations by or after Henry Fuseli, London, 1994, pp. 213-217, under no. 176.



Exhibited

Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings from Nine Private Collections, 1965, no. 24.
Artist:Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825)
Applied technique:Painted
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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