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Henry Fuseli

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Painting of a hag in a black cloak beside a sleeping nude woman, with a raised dagger and winged spirits in a dark sky.

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

1796

Bearded prophet with staff stands above a crouching man with a sword, with pale ghostly figures swirling behind them.

Tiresias appears to Ulysses during the sacrifice

1780

Painting of a wide-eyed woman in a yellow gown holding a candle, with two figures in shadow behind her in a dark room.

The sleepwalking Lady Macbeth

1780

Dark painting of witches and a crouching figure with a winged demon above, from Ben Jonson's masque, by Henry Fuseli.

Scene of Witches, from "The Masque of Queens" by Ben Jonson

1785

Painting of a young woman writing at a desk beside a seated woman, while an elderly man in a dark chair gazes upward.

Milton Dictating to His Daughter

1794

Painting of a sleeping woman with a demon crouching on her chest and a horse head peering through red curtains.

The Nightmare

1781

Painting of an old bearded man pointing in anger at a kneeling young man covering his ears, with two women in grief.

Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices

1786

Oil portrait of a woman with high dressed hair, blue ribbons, red bodice and plaid sash against a dark background.

Portrait of Maria Hess

1778

Titania embraces Bottom, a man with a donkey's head, surrounded by fairies in a dark, dreamlike night scene.

Titania liebkost den eselköpfigen Bottom

1793

Painting of a white-haired old man pointing in anger at a kneeling young man in yellow, with two women nearby in a dark setti

Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices

1786

Painting of a tall white-robed figure raising an arm beside a seated man embraced by a veiled woman in a dark setting.

Die Tugend ruft die Jugend zurück (aus den Armen der Sünde)

1806

Painting of a knight raising a sword beside a woman in white, with a hooded figure and glowing faces in the dark background.

Percival Delivering Belisane from the Enchantment of Urma

1783

Painted head of a man with closed eyes and dark hood against a warm ochre ground, after Dante's Inferno.

Head of a Damned Soul from Dante's "Inferno," (verso)

1770

Painting of a nude woman embracing a clinging child against a dark background, by Henry Fuseli, 1800.

Tekemessa and Eurysakes

1800

Haloed figure rising above a table as two men lean toward it in a dark, dramatically lit scene.

Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

1792

Painting of a reclining nude woman on a red-draped couch with a winged figure descending above her in dramatic light.

Dido

1781

Dark painting of a ghostly rider on a black horse with a sword, a nude woman recoiling, and a terrified man in a forest.

グイド・カヴァルカンティの亡霊に出会うテオドーレ

1783

Oil painting of a reclining woman in white raising her arm beside a man in a turban and red sash with a dagger.

Leonore upptäcker Alonzos dolk

Painting of a sleeping woman in white with a crouching demon on her chest and a horse head emerging from dark curtains.

The Nightmare

1790

Painting of a seated woman, a standing woman, and a bearded man in a dark interior holding a small child.

Thetis bittet Hephaistos, für ihren Sohn Achilleus eine Rüstung zu schmieden

1803

Painting of a nude man on a small boat facing monstrous winged creatures above a dark cliff and turbulent sea.

Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis(See also separate articles: Scylla and Charybdis)

1794

Arched painting of a white-gowned woman reaching upward beneath a veiled figure, with a lion and nude figure below.

Euphrosyne vor der Phantasie und der Temperantia (Mäßigkeit)

1799

Pale draped female figures float through a dark, dreamlike space, some holding lamps, by Henry Fuseli, 1781.

The Dream of Queen Katherine (Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act IV, Scene 2)

1781