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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1870,1008.2798
Title: Object: Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices
Description: Oedipus seated at right, pointing his finger accusingly at his son who cowers from him at left, his arm extended and hand held up to his father's face, Oedipus’s daughter Antigone pushing them apart, Ismene kneeling in the right foreground holds her head to her knees in despair; after a lost painting by Fuseli (Schiff lost work 7), the inscription on a separate plate. 1826 Stipple and etching
Producer name: After: Henry Fuseli; Print made by: John Perry; Published by: Henry Perry
School/style: British
Production date: 1826
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: stipple; etching
Dimensions: Height: 302 millimetres (image); Height: 344 millimetres (with inscription plate); Width: 361 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1861,0518.153 for proof before letters.
Bibliographic references: Weinglass 1994 / Prints and engraved book illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli (304)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend
Associated names: Illustration to: Sophocles; Representation of: Oedipus; Representation of: Antigone; Representation of: Isomene
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Colnaghi
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,1008.2798

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