- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.706
- People
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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
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- Medium
- Brown ink, red gouache, 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
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- inscription: lower left, brown ink: William Blake
- inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: 116
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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.
- Exhibition History
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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
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