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Galinthias deceives Eileithyia by announcing the birth of Heracles

Maker

(artist)
1746-1831

After
(artist)
1741-1825

Title

Date of Production

1777-1780

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32 cm
Width: 41.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1977.WF.4776

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 23/08/1977

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This sheet was originally in an album of pencil and pen and ink drawings made by Northcote during his stay in Italy between 1777 and 1780. Northcote used his time in Italy to study and make drawings from Old Master paintings in Italian collections, as well as drawing at the French Academy; he claimed he 'painted nothing original ... except a few portraits of my particular friends'. He also made copies from drawings by his friend and fellow artist, Johann Heinrich Fuseli, of which this is an example. His aim was to store up compositional and other ideas which might be useful in his future work.

Provenance

Edward W. Hennell by 1898; William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903-1979); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 November 1975, lot 12; purchased there by Alister Mathews (1907-1985); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), 23 August 1977 (£252), via the Witt Fund

Exhibition History

The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art of the 1770's, Yale Center for British Art, 11/09/1979-04/11/1979

Literature

Myrone, Martin. Henry Fuseli (London: Tate Publishing, 2001)

The Fuseli Circle in Rome - Early Romantic Art of the 1770's, Yale Center for British Art, 1979
cat. no. 99

Pressly, Nancy L., The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979
no. 99
ill. on p. 100

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre: a soldier with plumed helmet seated on a fence with a rampant lion, accompanied by the words "PRO PATRIA" (no exact match in Heawood or Churchill, but is largely an 18th century mark. The 1979 catalogue said it is an Italian mark - unclear the basis for this, as none of the similar Pro Patria marks in Churchill or Heawood are Italian).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: "136". Verso: left upper edge, graphite, circled: "19."; upper centre, graphite, crossed out so hard to read, looks like: "N4"; left centre, graphite, written twice but the first crossed out: "64".

Collector's mark: none.

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