The Shepherd's Dream

Exhibition history

London, Tate Britain: "Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination," February 15-May 1, 2006, p. 163, cat. 108 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.

Quick Overview

Artist: Georgina North / English, 1798-1835
Date: c. 1820
Medium: Pen and black ink, and brush and black and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 54.5 × 75.5 cm (21 1/2 × 29 3/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Switzerland
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1976.1291

Provenance

Sold, Puttick and Simpson, London, October 23, 1914, lot 235 or 236, to William F. E. Gurley (1854-1943), Chicago [collector records]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1943.

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