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accession number: 1954.365
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Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear, 1776. Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825). Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash; sheet: 30.9 x 42.5 cm (12 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.); secondary support: 31 x 42.7 cm (12 3/16 x 16 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1954.365
title: Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear
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creation date: 1776
creation date earliest: 1776
creation date latest: 1776
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash
department: Drawings
collection: DR - British
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Schiff 483a
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CREATORS
* Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 30.9 x 42.5 cm (12 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 31 x 42.7 cm (12 3/16 x 16 13/16 in.)
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description: cream(2) laid paper, laid down on cream(2) modern? laid paper
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inscription: inscribed, at lower center, in brown ink: Roma Oct. 76; at lower left, in brown ink: 17
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Drawings of Henry Fuseli
opening date: 1954-02-16T05:00:00
The Drawings of Henry Fuseli. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 16-March 10, 1954).
title: The World of Benjamin West
opening date: 1962-05-01T04:00:00
The World of Benjamin West. Allentown Art Museum, PA (organizer) (May 1-July 31, 1962).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00
Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825. Kunsthaus, Zurich (May 17 – July 6 1969).', 'opening_date': '1969-07-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Fuseli. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 16 - March 7, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-02-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825: zur Zweihundertjahrfeier und Gedächtnisausstellung. Kunsthaus Zürich (August 17 - October 15, 1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-08-17T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Dr. John Percy [1817-1889; Lugt 1504], London
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Sir James Knowles, London
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Eva Trüeb-Baumann, Chateau d'Hauterive, Switzerland
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(Dr. G. A. Gericke, Zurich)
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1954-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Wartmann, Wilhelm. Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825: zur Zweihundertjahrfeier und Gedächtnisausstellung. Exh. Cat. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1941.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 76, no. 240
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"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly 17 (Winter 1954): 412.
page number: Mentioned: p. 412.
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The World of Benjamin West. Exh. Cat. Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1962.
page number: Mentioned: p. 76, no. 55
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Wartmann, Wilhelm. Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825. Zurich: Kunsthaus. 1969.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 74
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Schiff, Gert. Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog. Zurich: Berichthaus, 1973.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 76, 110, 456, no. 483a
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Pressly, Nancy. The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s. Exh. Cat. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: p. 40, under no. 41
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Bjurström, Per. Dürer to Delacroix: Great Master Drawings from Stockholm. Exh. Cat. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 84, no. 103
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Important Old Master Pictures. New York: Christie's: 1995.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 296-7, under no. N146
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Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 30-31, 145, no. 5
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Moster-Hoos, Jutta, ed. Die Geister, die sie riefen...: Lust- und Angstphantasien von Horst Janssen und Johan Heinrich Füssli. München: Hirmer, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 9; Mentioned: p. 48
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IMAGES
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