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AT-00005788The Slaying of Red Comyn by Robert the Bruce
by Henry Fuseli
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink (in Greek): "Robert de Brous (Robert of Bruce)"; inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "What at Thy pranks again! have done old boy! The hang [?] on rotten wood"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "10" [encircled]; lower right, in graphite: "D27974"; verso, center on mount, in graphite: "Henry FUSELI R.A."
Provenance
Alfred Stehli, Zurich [Schiff 1973]. Sold by P. & D. Colnaghi, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., Feb. 1965; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 75, cat. 46 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing", Nov 16, 2017 - Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.
Publications
Paul Ganz, Die Ziechnung Hans [Johann] Heinrich Füsslis (Henry Fuseli) (Bern, 1947; translated edition: New York, 1949), p. 74. Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, 2 vols. (Berichthaus Zurich, 1973), I: pp. 379 and 609, II: pl. 1540. Johann Heinrich Füssli, exh. cat. (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1974), p. 61 (ill.). Gert Schiff and Paola Viotto, L'opera completa di Füssli (Rizzoli, 1977), p. 116, no. D.103 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 75, cat. 46 (ill.).
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
- 1810–16
- Medium
- Pen and brown iron gall ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, over chalk (recto), and black chalk (verso), on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 × 20.6 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and iron gall ink
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2012.78
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