Henry Fuseli

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Henry Fuseli

1741-1825

Psychostasy (The Weighing of Souls)

Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with blue watercolor, over faint traces of graphite, on paper.

18 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (477 x 332 mm)

Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.

1974.44

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription:

Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink, at upper right corner, "Febr. 1800"; along lower margin, "PSYCHOSTASIA; pephnon stratarchon Aithiopon aphobon - Memnona Chalkoaran" (Pindar, "Isthmian Odes", V, 39-41).
Inscribed by another hand in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Willm Blake".

Provenance:

Mrs. W. Murray Crane; by descent to Louise Crane.

Associated names:

Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 165.
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog, Zurich-Munich, 1973, 13, 277, 308, 584, cat. no. 1365, 652 under no. 64, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).
Wiles, Stephanie. To Observe and Imagine : British Drawings, 1600-1900. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1998, no. 46.

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