1963.141: Scene with Four People and a Spider

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1963.141

People

Master of the Giants, British (active late 18th century)
Possibly by James Jefferys, British (1757 - 1784)

Title

Scene with Four People and a Spider

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296947

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

25.3 x 29.1 cm (9 15/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Richard L. Feigen, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard L. Feigen

Accession Year

1963

Object Number

1963.141

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Frederick Cummings, Allen Staley, and Robert Rosenblum, Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Detroit/Philadelphia, 1968), cat. no. 81, repr.
• Corlette Rossiter Walker, William Blake in the Art of His Time, exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, 1976), cat. no. 62, repr.
• Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s, exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, 1979), no. 91, repr. p. 91
• Jean Clay, Le romantisme, Réalités-Hachette (Paris, 1980), p. 105, repr.
• William L. Pressly, The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's 'Fine Frenzy' in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Art, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 2007), p. 30, fig. 8
• Recent Acquisitions, auct. cat., Lowell Libson Ltd (London, 2020/2021), repr. p. 38
• Jonny Yarker, "The Master of the Giants Album: A Partial Reconstruction and Attribution", Master Drawings (2024), LXII, no. 1, pp. 53-84, no. II.21, fig. 32

Exhibition History

• Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Detroit Institute of Arts, 01/09/1968 - 02/18/1968; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 03/14/1968 - 04/21/1968
• William Blake in the Art of His Time, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, 02/24/1976 - 03/28/1976
• The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, 09/12/1979 - 11/11/1979

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