Watermark: three double fleur-de-lis in circle surmounted by crown and cross and enclosed in crossed palms with the letter "D" below.
Inscribed in Greek in brown ink at lower left by the artist, "and the Erynus that walketh in darkness heard him from Erebus" [Homer, The Iliad, IX, 571-72]. At right Fuseli's original inscription "Roma Jan 76" has been altered to read "London Jan 76". At lower right added in pencil "W. Blake 1776"; below in pen "W. Blake".
Oppé, A. P. (Adolf Paul), 1878-1957 former owner.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 147.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. Fifth Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1954, p. 70-72.