Artwork Information
An amateur artist’s model, Sophia Rawlings married Henry Fuseli in 1788. She was much younger than him and had not had the same intellectual and social opportunities that he had experienced, yet their marriage was long and happy. At one point, he foolishly showed more than a passing interest in their friend Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century proto-feminist, but Sophia soon reined him in.
- Artist
- Henry Fuseli
- Title
- Mrs Fuseli seated at a table
- Production Date
- circa 1790-circa 1791
- Medium
- pen with grey, brown and pink wash, body colour
- Dimensions
- 227 x 157 mm
- Credit Line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1965
- Accession No
- 1965/49
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display Status
- Not on display
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