Henry Fuseli
1741-1825
Psychostasy (The Weighing of Souls)
18 13/16 x 13 1/16 inches (477 x 332 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with blue watercolor, over faint traces of graphite, on paper.
1974.44
Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink, at upper right corner, "Febr. 1800"; along lower margin, "PSYCHOSTASIA; pephnon stratarchon Aithiopon aphobon - Memnona Chalkoaran" (Pindar, "Isthmian Odes", V, 39-41).
Inscribed by another hand in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Willm Blake".
Inscribed by another hand in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Willm Blake".
Associated names
Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972, former owner.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Crane, Louise, former owner.
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 165.
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog, Zurich-Munich, 1973, 13, 277, 308, 584, cat. no. 1365, 652 under no. 64, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).
Wiles, Stephanie. To Observe and Imagine : British Drawings, 1600-1900. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1998, no. 46.
Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli 1741-1825: Text und Oeuvrekatalog, Zurich-Munich, 1973, 13, 277, 308, 584, cat. no. 1365, 652 under no. 64, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).
Wiles, Stephanie. To Observe and Imagine : British Drawings, 1600-1900. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1998, no. 46.
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