Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)
published by Philipp André (German, active London, 1800–1805)
and James Heath (British, 1757–1834)
A Woman Sitting by the Window (“Evening Thou Bringest All”), from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography
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Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)
published by Philipp André (German, active London, 1800–1805)
and James Heath (British, 1757–1834)1802, published 1803
A Woman Sitting by the Window (“Evening Thou Bringest All”), from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography
Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825) published by Philipp André (German, active London, 1800–1805) and James Heath (British, 1757–1834) →lithographprint
Date
1802, published 1803
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/primary support: 23.2 × 31.8 cm (9 3/16 × 12 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 37.2 × 49 cm (14 11/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
Specimens of Polyautography (published 1803), the portfolio of lithographs that included Fuseli’s print (as well as James Barry’s Eastern Patriarch and Benjamin West’s Angel of the Resurrection), contained the first lithographs published in Britain.
Lithography is a form of printing in which a drawing is made directly on limestone, which is then moistened and inked, the ink adhering only to the drawn marks. The resulting print thus retains the immediacy of the original drawing. The Greek inscription on Fuseli’s print, a quote from the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho which was reversed in the printing process, means “Evening, thou bringest all [things home].”