drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1885,0314.231
- Description
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One of the drawings from the Roman Album, Satan, Sin and Death, from Milton's 'Paradise Lost', II, 702ff. 1776-1780
Pen and brown ink with grey and brown wash, over graphite
- Production date
- 1776-1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres
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Width: 377 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
See 1885,0314.213 for another drawing by Fuseli on the subject of Satan in the British Museum collection. Fuseli exhibited a painting at the Milton Gallery of 'Satan encountering Death, Sin interposing', however the painting is now lost. The composition of Fuseli's drawing appears to be based on Hogarth's painting on the same subject now in the Tate Gallery collection. Fuseli frequently returned to the subject of Satan, Sin and Death There are further examples of related drawings in the National Museum of Stockholm and oil studies in the Los Angeles Country Museum and the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2004 July-Oct, Cumbria, The Wordsworth Trust, 'Paradise Lost'
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Paradise Lost
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0314.231