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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 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 (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 (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825. Kunsthaus, Zurich (May 17 – July 6 1969).
Fuseli. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 16 - March 7, 1954).
Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825: zur Zweihundertjahrfeier und Gedächtnisausstellung. Kunsthaus Zürich (August 17 - October 15, 1941).
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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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fun fact:
This drawing is one of three almost identical drawings depicting the same scene from Paradise Lost; the other sheets are in the collections of the National Gallery, Stockholm, and the British Museum, London.
digital description:
Henry Fuseli's lifelong interest in the work of the English poet John Milton (1608-1674) inspired many drawings that interpreted passages from Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). This early example illustrates the moment when the angels Ithuriel and Zephon discover Satan disguised as a toad in the bower where Adam and Eve are sleeping. Ithuriel forces Satan to reveal himself by prodding him with a spear. The lion in the background alludes to an earlier passage in the poem, when Satan takes on the shape of the beast in order to spy on the couple.
wall description:
Fuseli's lifelong interest in the work of the English poet John Milton (1608-1674) inspired many drawings that interpreted passages from Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). This early example illustrates the moment when the angels Ithuriel and Zephon discover Satan disguised as a toad in the bower where Adam and Eve are sleeping. Ithuriel forces Satan to reveal himself by prodding him with a spear. The lion in the background alludes to an earlier passage in the poem, when Satan takes on the shape of the beast in order to spy on the couple.
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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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