id: 131789 accession number: 1954.365 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.365 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:32.717000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1776 creation date earliest: 1776 creation date latest: 1776 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Schiff 483a --- CREATORS * Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(2) laid paper, laid down on cream(2) modern? laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed, at lower center, in brown ink: Roma Oct. 76; at lower left, in brown ink: 17 translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE Dr. John Percy [1817-1889; Lugt 1504], London date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Sir James Knowles, London date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Eva Trüeb-Baumann, Chateau d'Hauterive, Switzerland date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Dr. G. A. Gericke, Zurich) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly 17 (Winter 1954): 412. page number: Mentioned: p. 412. url: The World of Benjamin West. Exh. Cat. Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 76, no. 55 url: Wartmann, Wilhelm. Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825. Zurich: Kunsthaus. 1969. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 74 url: Schiff, Gert. Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog. Zurich: Berichthaus, 1973. page number: Mentioned: pp. 76, 110, 456, no. 483a url: 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 url: 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 url: Important Old Master Pictures. New York: Christie's: 1995. page number: Mentioned: pp. 296-7, under no. N146 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.365/1954.365_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.365/1954.365_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.365/1954.365_full.tif