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Titania's dream

Maker

(artist)
1741-1825

Title

Titania's dream

Date of Production

(?) 1822

Medium

graphite and watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 38.1 cm
Width: 38.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2841

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







Label Text

Fuseli’s subject matter was mainly derived from history, romance and literature, and he contributed nine subjects to the engraver Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery. This drawing, a study for an oil painting, shows Titania, Queen of the Fairies in 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'.

Provenance

Mrs Michael Schwabacher; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 28 July 1936; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 21 September 1936 (£45); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Narrative Folds (Pop-up exhibition), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/2013-01/06/2013

The Witt Collection - Four centuries of drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004

Johann Heinrich Fuseli, Tate Gallery, London, 1975 ...More

Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from British collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 16/04/1962-03/06/1962

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from British collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18/02/1962-01/04/1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953

Paintings and drawings by Fuseli, Arts Council, London, 1950

Paintings and drawings by Fuseli, 1741-1825, Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 01/05/1948-01/06/1948

Figure drawings by English artists of the 19th & 20th centuries, R.E.A. Wilson, London, 01/06/1938-01/07/1938 ...Less

Literature

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 116
ill. on p. 114

Henry Fuseli 1741-1825, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Petit Palais, Paris; Tate, 1974-75

Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 1080 ...More

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from British collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1962
cat. no. 38
ill. on p. 31

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 7

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 41

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

Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953
cat. no. 472

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 10
pl. VIII

Powell, Nicholas, The Drawings of Henry Fuseli, London, 1951
pl. 61

Paintings and drawings by Fuseli, Arts Council, London, 1950
cat. no. 132

Woodward, John, Review of 'Paintings and Drawings by Fuseli' in 'Burlington Magazine', April 1950 - pp. 111-13; 92, 565
p. 112 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis above letters "GR".

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black chalk, dated in artist's hand: "1 May 22". Verso: right centre (now hidden under Japanese tissue), graphite: “33116”.

Collector's mark: none.

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