Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825

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British painter and author.

From the description of Autograph receipt signed, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753440

Fuseli was a Swiss-born artist active mainly in England.

From the description of Proofs for illustrations in Plays of William Shakespeare, 1805. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612591316

Swiss-born British painter, author and educator.

From the description of Draft manuscript, ca. 1798, and letter, 1818. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 145988279

Henry Fuseli, Swiss-born painter and writer. He first came to London in 1764, and remained in England for much of his life. Fuseli was a member of the social circle of radical publisher Joseph Johnson, which included such noted figures as Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

From the description of Henry Fuseli manuscript material : 1 items, ca. 1780's (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 226251769

English painter and author.

From the description of Receipt signed : received from William Lock, 1813 Dec. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753508

From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1798 Mar. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753443

From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified friend, 1819 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753531

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Royal Academy, 1823 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753471

From the description of Autograph letter (in third person) : Somerset House [London], to Mr. Nollekens, 1815 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753515

From the description of Autograph letter (in third person) : Royal Academy, to Benjamin West, 1816 Jul. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753521

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Somerset House, 1809 Nov. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753449

From the description of Printed document signed : London, 1820 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753537

From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Coutts, 1797 Sept. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753494

From the description of Portion of autograph letter signed, 1818 Jul. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753455

From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Lock, jr.], 1815 Sept. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753500

From the description of Autograph letter (in third person) : Pursers Cross, to Cadell & Davies, 1805 Jun. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753475

From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1820 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270753466

Fuseli was a Swiss-born painter active mainly in England.

From the guide to the Proofs for illustrations in, Plays of William Shakespeare, 1805., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Epithet: painter

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x0001bd

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referencedIn Letters from various correspondents, 1807-1832 (inclusive), 1814-1829 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf Felton, Samuel. Manuscript copies of extracts concerning Shakespeare [manuscript], ca. 1860. Folger Shakespeare Library
referencedIn Proofs for illustrations in, Plays of William Shakespeare, 1805. Houghton Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Printed document signed : London, 1820 Apr. 28. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Papers, 1808-1888. Houghton Library
referencedIn Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872. Memoirs of the professional life of Thomas Sully dedicated to his brother artists, Philadelphia, November 1851. Winterthur Library
creatorOf Hayter, George, Sir, 1792-1871. Personal and family papers, 1808-1879. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter (in third person) : Royal Academy, to Benjamin West, 1816 Jul. 10. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter (in third person) : Somerset House [London], to Mr. Nollekens, 1815 Nov. 10. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Library Collection of Study Photographs and Clippings, ca. 1930-2000 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Portion of autograph letter signed, 1818 Jul. 15. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Seward, William, 1747-1799,. Autograph letters signed from W[illiam] Seward to George Steevens [manuscript], 1795 May-June. Folger Shakespeare Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Lock, jr.], 1815 Sept. 30. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed, 1820 Nov. 10. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Henry Fusely : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
referencedIn Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. Autograph letter signed : Newman Street [London], to Henry Fuseli, 1818 Dec. 2. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Salloch, William and Mary, Collection of Prints and Drawings: “People with Books.”, 1500-1814 Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library,
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Henry Fuseli manuscript material : 1 items, ca. 1780's New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn LITERARY COMMONPLACE-BOOK in several hands; circa 1783. Partly printed. Included in the original core of the book, now ff. 66-166, 172, are (ff. 89-93v, 96-97) verses by William Hayley and Anna Seward mostly relating to her visit to Eartham, co. Suss..., approximately 1783 British Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825,. Proofs for illustrations in Plays of William Shakespeare, 1805. Houghton Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified friend, 1819 Jan. 1. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Draft manuscript, ca. 1798, and letter, 1818. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk). Houghton Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed : Somerset House, 1809 Nov. 14. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Heywood, B. A., fl. 1787,. Autograph letter signed from B.A. Heywood, Lancaster, to Mr. Henry Fuseli, London [manuscript], 1787 January 1. Folger Shakespeare Library
referencedIn Mason, Jonathan, Jr., 1795-1884. Recollections of a septuaginarian, [1866?]-1881. Winterthur Library
creatorOf Füssli, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1825. Lady Macbeth somnanbule. Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF
referencedIn Romney, George, 1734-1802. Letter : London, to Oziah Humphrey, 1775 July 8. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Portrait file: Guide. Houghton Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Coutts, 1797 Sept. 13. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Library Collection of Study Photographs and Clippings, ca. 1930-2000 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark
creatorOf Shee, Martin Archer, 1769-1850. Autograph letter signed : Cavendish Square [London], to Henry Fuseli, 1824 July 6. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825,. Autograph letter signed from H. Fuseli, Holborne, London, to William Roscoe [manuscript], [1823?] December 7. Folger Shakespeare Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825,. Autograph letters from Henry Fuseli, London, to George Steevens, Hampstead Heath [manuscript], 1793-1797. Folger Shakespeare Library
referencedIn Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Fussli), 1741-1825 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. [Henry Fuseli : a collection of ephemera]. Frick Art Reference Library
referencedIn Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens, 1708-1875, 1768-1836 Yale Center for British Art
referencedIn De Belder, Georges, 1922-1982. Notes and fragments from the De Belder papers, ca. 1957. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875. Letters, ca. 1828-1869. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Autograph File, F, 1447-1994. Houghton Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph receipt signed, undated. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. [Letter] 1818 Nov. 2, Somerset House [to] My dear Sir / H. Fuseli. Smith College, Neilson Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Receipt signed : received from William Lock, 1813 Dec. 24. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Vol. I, ff. 346, A-G.includes:f. 1 Joseph Adams, MD; biographer of John Hunter: Letter to W. Clift: 1817. f. 3 William Davenport Adams, author: Letter to C. D. Sherborn: 1891. f. 4 William Harrison Ainsworth, alias 'Cheviot Ticheburn'; novelist: Le... British Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter (in third person) : Pursers Cross, to Cadell & Davies, 1805 Jun. 13. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Du Roveray, F. I. Illustrations to Homer's Iliad: Proofs (1805) and Illustrations to Homer's Odyssey: Proofs (1806), 1805-1806. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Thompson, Thomas, 1776-1861. Cowperiana scrapbooks, 1731-1853. Boston Athenaeum
creatorOf Füssli, Johann Heinrich, 1741-1825. Lady Macbeth somnanbule [Multimédia multisupport]. Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF
referencedIn North, Susan North, Baroness, 1797-1884. Susan North diary, 1808. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825,. Autograph receipts from Henry Fuseli to [John] Boydell [manuscript], 1788-1790. Folger Shakespeare Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed : Royal Academy, 1823 Nov. 14. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Steevens, George, 1736-1800,. Letters to and from George Steevens [manuscript], 1763-1799. Folger Shakespeare Library
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Autograph letter signed, 1798 Mar. 3. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. Remarks on William Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad, [ca. 1791]. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Proofs for illustrations in, Plays of William Shakespeare, 1805. Houghton Library
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associatedWith Cromek, R. H. (Robert Hartley), 1770-1812 person
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correspondedWith Heywood, B. A., fl. 1787, person
associatedWith Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834. person
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associatedWith Mason, Jonathan, Jr., 1795-1884. person
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associatedWith Nollekens, Joseph, 1737-1823, person
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associatedWith Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836. person
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Place Name Admin Code Country
England
Great Britain
Subject
Art
Art and literature
Art, British
Epic poetry, Greek
Painters
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Composers
Illustrator
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Birth 1741-02-07

Death 1825-04-16

Birth 1741

Death 1825

Swiss

Greek, Ancient (to 1453),

English

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