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AT-00002159Study for Inquisition, Illustration to Columbiad
by Henry Fuseli
Inscriptions
Inscribed across lower edge, in graphite: various numbers, possibly framers notations; verso, upper left, in graphite: "Fuessly, Heinrich / Fuseli, Henry 1741-1825)"; lower left, in brush and black ink: "Heinrich Fuessly 1741-1825"; upper left, in purple pencil: "Part of 236"; lower center, in graphite: "20 7/8 x 17 1/2"; lower left, in graphite (by AIC former staff member): "Titled "Inquisition" / by Prof. Gert Schiff"
Provenance
Sold, Puttick & Simpson, London, Oct. 23, 1914, lot 236 [according to inscription] to William F. E. Gurley (1870-1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.
Exhibition history
London, Tate Britain, "Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination," Feb. 15-May 1, 2006, p. 170 (ill.), cat. 116. Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Publications
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: pp. 337 and 639, II: pl. 1803.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Fuseli / Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
- Date
- c. 1806
- Medium
- Oil paint, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on stipple etching, etching, and aquatint in black on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 52.9 × 44.6 cm (20 7/8 × 17 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- oil on paper
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.5686
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