Mrs Fuseli sleeping

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Title

Mrs Fuseli sleeping

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Description

pen and brown ink, with grey, blue and pink wash, body colour 227 x 186 mm - Fuseli’s drawings are filled with images of sleep and its association with the world of dreams, when the imagination is unconstrained. He inscribed (in Greek) on one of his many drawings of his wife Sophia in which she wears a similar large hat, ‘Restlessly I chased th...

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Date created

circa 1795

Creator

Henry Fuseli

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https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3303

Related subjects

women / wives / hats / sleeping / dresses / portraits / Romantic/European / Drawing

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