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Lady Macbeth sleep-walking (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1741-1825

Title

Lady Macbeth sleep-walking (recto)

Date of Production

(September) 1798

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.5 cm
Width: 20.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2156

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

L'Europe des Esprits, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg & Strasbourg & France, 07/10/2011-12/02/2012

Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Tate Gallery, London, 1975

Johann Henrich Fussli, Petit Palais, Paris, 1974-1975 ...More

Johann Henrich Fussli, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1974-1975

Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964

English paintings and drawings circa 1780-1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1933-34 (Winter)

Shakespeare in Pictures, Zurich (?), 1926 ...Less

Literature

Henry Fuseli 1741-1825, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Petit Palais, Paris; Tate, 1974-75
no. 35
ill.

Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 1014, 1013 (verso)

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20 ...More

Powell, Nicholas, The Drawings of Henry Fuseli, London, 1951
pl. 45

English paintings and drawings circa 1780-1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1933 - 1934 (Winter)
cat. no. 113
no. 113 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left (within drawing), brown ink, dated: “Sept.r 98”. Verso: upper left corner, upper centre and lower left corner all had graphite inscriptions erased and now illegible, except the latter starts with a “W”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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