An ink drawing of two nude male soldiers wielding spears and shields, one solider chasing the other.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

An ink drawing of two male soldiers wielding spears and shields. The soldiers are nude, wearing only helmets and cloaks. They are mid-motion, partially mid-air as the soldier on the left chases the one on the right. There is a tomb with a statue of a seated man in the foreground in front of the two soldiers, and a stone wall behind them.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.706
People
Henry Fuseli, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1741 - 1825 London, England)
Title
Agamemnon Pursuing a Trojan near the Tomb of Ilos
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1768-1770
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297968

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, red watercolor, and brown and gray wash over graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
44 × 56 cm (17 5/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
mount: 45.9 × 57.7 cm (18 1/16 × 22 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: William Blake
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 116

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.706
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 2, repr.
  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 191-193, repr. p. 192 as fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
  • Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Bequest, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/11/1993 - 11/07/1993
  • Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: The Past and the Present: British Art of the 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/03/2010 - 11/20/2010
  • Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/2022 - 01/15/2023

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