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The Death of Oedipus (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, lines 1606-1628)
William Ward
August 26, 1785
Portrait of a Young Lady Drawn in Left Profile
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1778–79
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
Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
John Raphael Smith
August 25, 1782
Der Besessene (The Escapee: A Real Scene in the Hospital of San Spirito at Rome)
John Barlow
1806
The Night Mare
Laurede
1782
King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)
Richard Earlom
first published 1792; reissued 1852
Specimens of Polyautography, Consisting of Impressions taken from Original Drawings, Made on Stone purposely for this Work
Georg Jacob Vollweiler
1806–7
Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vols. 4-5
John Sartain
January–December 1849
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
Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: with Instructions for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1765
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
Doll Tearsheet, Falstaff, Henry and Poins (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 4)
William Satchwell Leney
first published 1795; reissued 1852
Hercules Slays Diomedes and his Flesh-Eating Mares (Apollodorus, II, 5, 8 and Quintus Smyrnaeus, VI, 247-250)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Night and Her Children Aither and Hemera (Hesiod, Theogony)
Henry Fuseli
ca. 1810–15
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
Menelaus and Patroclus, after the Antique (recto and verso)
Henry Fuseli
1770–78
Flora Attired by the Elements (Frontispiece to The Economy of Vegetation, vol. I of Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden)
Anker Smith
June 1, 1791
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 7, containing Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
1805
The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)
John Raphael Smith
March 10, 1785
Caius Marius and the Cimbrian Soldier (Plutarch, "Marius," 39; Lucan, "Pharsalia," XI, 75-86)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Der Tod des Oedipus (The Death of Oedipus)
Franz Hegi
1806
Belisane and Percival Under the Enchantment of Urma
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
Specimens of Polyautography, Consisting of Impressions Taken from Original Drawings (Made on Stone) Purposely for This Work
Philipp H. André
1803–7
Tornado–Zeus Battling Typhon, from Erasmus Darwin's "Botanic Garden"
William Blake
August 1, 1795
Belisane and Parcifal under the Enchantment of Urma
John Raphael Smith
August 25, 1782
Fuessli und Bodmer (Fuseli and Bodmer in Conversation)
Johann Heinrich Lips
1806
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
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol 8, containing Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear
William Shakespeare
1805
Der Schweizerbund (The Oath of the Rütli)
Franz Hegi
1806
Caractacus at the Tribunal (Tacitus, Annals, XII, 37)
Andrew Birrell
June 1, 1792
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 9, containing Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello
William Shakespeare
1805
Fertilization of Egypt, from Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
William Blake
1791
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 3, containing The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, A Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
1805
Tornado–Zeus Battling Typhon, from Erasmus Darwin's "The Botanic Garden"
William Blake
August 1, 1795
Silence (A Mother With Her Two Children, Milton, Il Penseroso, 78-84)
Moses Haughton the younger
January 6, 1808
The Witch and the Mandrake (Ben Jonson, "Witch's Song," Masque of Queens)
Henry Fuseli
1812
The Daughter of Herodias (Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist, Matthew 14:10-11)
Thomas Holloway
1798
Sin Pursued by Death (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, 787, 790-792)
Moses Haughton the younger
November 27, 1804
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Henry Fuseli
1796