Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel
1800/05
Medium
Oil and oil wash, with pen and black ink, charcoal, and touches of incising, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper
Dimensions
71.5 × 57.5 cm (28 3/16 × 22 11/16 in.)
Classification
gouache
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61549
About the Artist
Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zürich, was a Swiss-British painter whose visionary works exploring dreams, nightmares, and psychological terror made him one of the most original figures of the Romantic movement. His art bridged Neoclassical discipline with Romantic emotionalism, creating images of supernatural intensity that would influence artists from William Blake to t...