Angelo
Zoffanato (1735–1835)
“The
Nightmare”, 1795, published by Antonio
Suntach (1744–1828) after Henry Fuseli’s (aka Johann Heinrich Fuseli; Johann
Heinrich Füssli) (1741–1825) painting, “The Nightmare”, in the
collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, (Michigan); see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_NightmareFXD.jpg), or after a
lost version of Fuseli’s painting. Note that the British Museum holds a black
and white preparatory chalk drawing on brown paper by Fuseli (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1885-0314-198).
Stipple engraving printed
in brown ink on laid paper trimmed around the outer image borderline and backed
with a support sheet.
Size: (support sheet) 34.4 x 42.1
cm; (sheet) 19.8 x 23.6 cm; (image borderline) 19.3 x 23 cm.
Condition: a strong and
well-printed impression with a replenished printer’s crease at the right of
centre. The sheet has been laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality)
washi paper providing larger margins. Beyond the restored printer’s crease, the
sheet is in an excellent condition with no other significant issues.
I am selling this famous image of a
nightmare featuring a demonic creature pensively seated on a wantonly sprawled
woman—I understand that the ape-like creature is an incubus
credited by myth with having sexual intercourse with sleeping women—while the
head of a wild horse with demon eyes emerges between parted curtains, for AU$442
(currently US$300.42/EUR282.98/GBP248.62 at the time of posting this listing)
including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course)
any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing
this superb stipple engraving of Fuseli’s famous painting, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
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