Henry Fuseli
Mrs Fuseli sleeping
Artwork Detail
Fuseli’s drawings are filled with images of sleep and its association with the world of dreams, when the imagination is unconstrained. He inscribed (in Greek) on one of his many drawings of his wife Sophia in which she wears a similar large hat, ‘Restlessly I chased the image of my dream through the passing fashions’. On a further work, he inscribed; ‘Mrs Fuseli Seated making a Gesture of Silence’.
- Title
- Mrs Fuseli sleeping
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- circa 1795
- Medium
- pen and brown ink, with grey, blue and pink wash, body colour
- Dimensions
- 227 x 186 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1965
- Accession no
- 1965/46
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- On display
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