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Lady Macbeth sleep-walking with two studies for the head of the male figure
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1755-1834
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Width: 25.7 cm
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Exhibition History
Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964
Literature
p. 29
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27
The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art of the 1770's, Yale Center for British Art, 1979
cat. no. 97
ill.
Inscriptions
Inscription: Mount (removed, now cut down and in object file), Recto: graphite, L.G. Duke's hand: "D509/ Prince Hoare 1755-1834 / Lady Macbeth Sleep Walking. / From a collection of drawings by Nathaniel Dance RA, Prince Hoare etc. This drawing is / reminiscent of Fuseli's Lady Macbeth engraved by J.R. Smith. Prince Hoare studied with Fuseli / in Rome 1776-1778 and I have seen identical studies by both of them, one of the Dante und / Cavalcanti now in Zurich, of which I have Hoare's version, the other, of which I also have / Hoare's version, has a counterpart in the BM, inscribed Roma 1777 and signed Fuzely. / There seems no doubt that Prince Hoare borrowed from Fuseli. / LGD". Mount (removed, now cut down and in the object file), Verso: lower right, graphite: "#16".
Collector's mark: Mount (removed, now cut down and in object file), Recto: stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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