drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1885,0314.208
- Description
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One of the drawings from the Roman Album, Macbeth, the three witches, and the armed head, from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', IV, 1. 1774
Pen and brown ink with brown and grey wash, over graphite
- Production date
- 1774
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres
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Width: 386 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From album 1885,0314.201-296
For a general comment on the Roman album see 1885,0314.201
Close to a study of the same subject in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, though the Copehangen drawing has more tonal contrast. See David Bindman, 'British Drawings by Artists born before 1900', Copenhagen 2008, no.49, pp.77-8.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1957 P&D, 'William Blake and his circle', no.65(4)
1974 June-Aug, London, Kenwood, 'British artists in Rome 1700-1800', no.68
1974/5 Dec-Jan, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 'Johann Heinrich Füssli', no.30
1975 Feb-Mar, London, Tate Gallery, 'Henry Fuseli 1741-1825', no.33
1997 Sep-Dec, Parma, M. Rocca Fond., Fuseli and Shakespeare
2010 June-Sep, Toronto, AG of Ontario, Drama and Desire...
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Macbeth
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0314.208