print;
extra-illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1885,0314.297-300
- Description
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John Knowles's The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli Esq, 1831 (volumes II and III only), bound in red leather in four volumes and extra-illustrated by Harriet Jane Moore with 394 prints mostly of artists and paintings mentioned in the text; the volumes presented to the museum by Julia Moore in 1885 (register 1885-3-14-297 to 300; the prints in each volume are sub-numbered). There is no index but manuscript lists of illustrations have been bound in.
Vol.II, Part I: 175 prints, subjects correspond with text of Fuseli's lectures; the first print a portrait of Fuseli engraved by Lewis after Francis Milner Newton. First lecture titled 'Ancient Art'; mythological subjects include Stothard's 'Gods of Olympus'; topographical views include 'Campo Vaccino seen from the Campiglio Rome' published by William Bernard Cooke. Second lecture titled 'Art of the Moderns'; artist portraits include Charles Warren's engraving of Leonardo da Vinci and James Posselwhite's stipple engraving of Bramante; mythological subjects include Worthington's 'Ariadne and Bacchus' after Titian; religious subjects include William Thomas Fry's Ecco Homo after Corregio.
Vol.II, Part II: 80 prints, subjects correspond with text of Fuseli's lectures. Fourth lecture titled 'Invention'; religious subjects include three scenes after Raphael and after Paolo Veronese's 'The Wedding at Cana', landscapes include 'A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning' engraved by James Baylis Allen after Rubens. Fifth lecture titled 'Composition, Expression'. Sixth lecture titled 'Chiaroscuro'; religious scenes include 'The Nativity' after Corregio. Seventh lecture 'On Design'; portraits include Gerard Lairesse after John Hamilton Mortimer. Eighth Lecture 'Colour-in Fresco Painting'. Ninth lecture 'Colour-Oil Painting'; Religious subjects include 'Elevation of the Cross' after Rubens. Tenth lecture 'The Standard of the Human Frame'; prints after Greek sculpture include 'Sculpture from the Frieze of the Temple of Aglauros' engraved by William Sharp.
Vol.III, Part I: 88 prints, subjects correspond with the text of Fuseli's lectures. Eleventh lecture 'On the Prevailing Method of Treating the History of Painting'; architectural subjects include views of the interior and exterior of Milan cathedral; religious subjects after Caracci. Twelfth lecture 'On the Present State of the Art'. 'Aphorisms, chiefly relative to the Fine Arts'; mythological subjects include Stothard's 'Hector and Andromache', Shakespearean subjects include Robert Hartley Cromek's 'King Lear' after Fuseli. 'A History of Art in the Schools of Italy'.
Vol.III, Part II: 51 prints, subjects correspond with the text of Fuseli's writings. 'A History of Art in the Schools of Italy' continued; portraits include Pope Julius II after Raphael; topographical subjects include Monte Cavallo, Rome; mythological subjects include the Rape of Ganymede. A 'Memorior of the Late Henry Fuseli Esq. R.A.' (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, May 1828) is inserted at the back of the volume.
- Production date
- 1831-1884 (extra-illustrations assembled)
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 130 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Fuseli's Roman album (1885,0314.201 to 296) was presented at the same time; it has since been broken up and the drwings mounted.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0314.297-300
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1885,0314.298-300
