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A Woman Sitting by the Window–Evening Thou Bringest All
Henry Fuseli
1802–6
Caractacus at the Tribunal (Tacitus, Annals, XII, 37)
Andrew Birrell
June 1, 1792
Menelaus and Patroclus, after the Antique (recto and verso)
Henry Fuseli
1770–78
Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube
Henry Fuseli
1802
Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1778–79
Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: with Instructions for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1765
The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem
Alexander Pope
1798
The Death of Oedipus (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, lines 1606-1628)
William Ward
August 26, 1785
L'Univers, poëme en prose, en douze chants: suivi de notes et d'observations sur le système de Newton et la théorie Physique de la Terre
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
1801
Count Ezzelin Bracciaferro Musing over the Body of His Wife Meduna, Slain by Him for Her Infidelity during his Absence in the Holy Land
John Raphael Smith
May 1781
Belisane and Percival Under the Enchantment of Urma
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 4, containing Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King John, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Part 1
William Shakespeare
1805
Caius Marius and the Cimbrian Soldier (Plutarch, "Marius," 39; Lucan, "Pharsalia," XI, 75-86)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Specimens of Polyautography, Consisting of Impressions taken from Original Drawings, Made on Stone purposely for this Work
Georg Jacob Vollweiler
1806–7
Wie Till zur Barbier durch's Fenster kömt (How Till Eupenspiegel Came In Through the Barber's Window)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Flora Attired by the Elements (Frontispiece to The Economy of Vegetation, vol. I of Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden)
Anker Smith
June 1, 1791
Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy, March 1801
Henry Fuseli
1801
Tornado–Zeus Battling Typhon, from Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
William Blake
August 1, 1795
Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, 787, 790-792)
Moses Haughton the younger
November 27, 1804
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 5, containing King Henry the Fourth, Part 2, King Henry the Fifth, King Henry the Sixth, Part 1, King Henry the Sixth, Part 2
William Shakespeare
1805
Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5
John Sartain
January–December 1849
Prince Arthur's Vision (Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I, ix, 13)
Peltro William Tomkins
April 4, 1788
The Death of Oedipus (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, lines 1606-1628)
William Ward
August 26, 1785
Doll Tearsheet, Falstaff, Henry and Poins (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4)
William Satchwell Leney
first published 1795; reissued 1852
Sleeping Woman with a Cupid (Hush)
Henry Fuseli
1780–90
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 7, containing Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
1805
Der Kronenräuber (Claudio Murders His Brother, King Hamlet, By Pouring Poison into His Ear as He Lies Sleeping in the Garden, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5: 58-78)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
The Daughter of Herodias (Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Matthew 14:10-11)
Thomas Holloway
1798
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Henry Fuseli
1796
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 9, containing Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello
William Shakespeare
1805
Study for the Prophet Jeremiah (recto); Studies of a Horse Seen from Below and of a Man Seated on a Chair, Probably a Self-Portrait and an Off-Print in Brown Ink of a Nude Female Abdomen and Legs (verso)
Henry Fuseli
1764–70
Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2)
Moses Haughton the younger
March 12, 1867
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol 8, containing Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear
William Shakespeare
1805
Chrysogone Conceives, in a Ray of Sunshine, Amoretta and Belphoebe (Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queene, III, vi)
Henry Fuseli
1800–1810
Silence (A Mother With Her Two Children, Milton, Il Penseroso, 78-84)
Moses Haughton the younger
January 6, 1808
The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)
John Raphael Smith
March 10, 1785
Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
John Raphael Smith
August 25, 1782
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 2, containing Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
1805
Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera (Hesiod, Theogony)
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1810–15
Hercules Slays Diomedes and his Flesh-Eating Mares (Apollodorus, II, 5, 8 and Quintus Smyrnaeus, VI, 247-250)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806