Thetis Mourning the Body of Achilles

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Henry Fuseli / Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
Date: 1780
Medium: Brush and brown and brownish-red wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 41 × 55.7 cm (16 3/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink or chalk wash
Place: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.2154

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