The Rape of Ganymede

1804

Henry Fuseli

Artist, Swiss, 1741 - 1825

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    crayon lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.1 × 24.4 cm (12 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1947.7.111

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Man 1962, no. 65

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

[Walter Schatzki, New York]; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1947.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 130.

1988

  • Drawings on Stone: Early European Lithography, NGA, 1988.

Bibliography

1962

  • Man, Felix H. "Lithography in England (1801-1810)." In Prints, edited by Carl Zigrosser. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962: 116-130.

Inscriptions

upper right, in stone: HF; lower right, in stone: [inscription in Greek from book XX of "The Iliad"]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65073248

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