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The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem
Alexander Pope
1798
The Witch and the Mandrake (Ben Jonson, "Witch's Song," Masque of Queens)
Henry Fuseli
1812
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
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 9, containing Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello
William Shakespeare
1805
Heavenly Ganymede (Homer, Iliad, XX, 234)
Henry Fuseli
1804–7
Falstaff with Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)
Henry Fuseli
1790
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol 8, containing Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear
William Shakespeare
1805
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
1805
The Odyssey
Homer
1806–13
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 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
Der Besessene (The Escapee: A Real Scene in the Hospital of San Spirito at Rome)
John Barlow
1806
The Night Mare
Laurede
1782
Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
John Raphael Smith
August 25, 1782
Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
John Raphael Smith
August 25, 1782
Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube
Henry Fuseli
1802
Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, 787, 790-792)
Moses Haughton the younger
November 27, 1804
Silence (A Mother With Her Two Children, Milton, Il Penseroso, 78-84)
Moses Haughton the younger
January 6, 1808
The Daughter of Herodias (Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Matthew 14:10-11)
Thomas Holloway
1798
Lectures on Painting, Delivered at the Royal Academy, March 1801
Henry Fuseli
1801
Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus and the Ghost (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4)
Robert Thew
first published 1796; reissued 1852
Sleeping Woman with a Cupid (Hush)
Henry Fuseli
1780–90
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
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
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Henry Fuseli
1796
Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera (Hesiod, Theogony)
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1810–15
The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)
John Raphael Smith
March 10, 1785
Specimens of Polyautography, Consisting of Impressions Taken from Original Drawings (Made on Stone) Purposely for This Work
Philipp H. André
1803–7
Evening Thou Bringest All
Henry Fuseli
19th century
Chrysogone Conceives, in a Ray of Sunshine, Amoretta and Belphoebe (Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queene, III, vi)
Henry Fuseli
1800–1810
Der Tod des Oedipus (The Death of Oedipus)
Franz Hegi
1806
Fertilization of Egypt, from Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
William Blake
1791
Hercules Slays Diomedes and his Flesh-Eating Mares (Apollodorus, II, 5, 8 and Quintus Smyrnaeus, VI, 247-250)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Wie Till die Schneider duch Saüe straft (How Till Eugenspiegel Punished the Tailors)
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
Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2)
Moses Haughton the younger
March 12, 1867
Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5
John Sartain
January–December 1849
Belisane and Percival Under the Enchantment of Urma
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa While Being Attacked by the Other Gorgons; verso: A Sketch
Henry Fuseli
1816
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