Artworks · Fuse*

Dante Swoons before the Soaring Souls of Paolo and Francesca, Virgil at his Side

1813 · Etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper

Plate: 47 × 30.2 cm (18 9/16 × 11 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 33.2 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons

1810 · Oil and oil wash, over graphite and with touches of pen and black ink, on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white Japanese paper

55.2 × 67.6 cm (21 3/4 × 26 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower

1806 · Pen and black ink and brush and black, gray, and red wash, over traces of graphite, on grayish-ivory laid paper

63.9 × 52.2 cm (25 3/16 × 20 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube

1802 · Graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper

12 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (31.2 x 33.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hercules Killing the Mares of Diomedes

1800 · Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

50.4 × 38.6 cm (19 7/8 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Chrysogone Conceives, in a Ray of Sunshine, Amoretta and Belphoebe (Edmund Spenser, "The Faerie Queene, III, vi)

1800 · Etching

Plate: 7 11/16 × 10 3/4 in. (19.5 × 27.3 cm) Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 11/16 in. (22.2 × 29.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

1796 · Oil on canvas

40 x 49 3/4 in. (101.6 x 126.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Milton Dictating to His Daughter

1793 · Oil on canvas

121.2 × 118.7 cm (47 3/4 × 46 3/4 in.); Framed: 142.9 × 130.5 cm (56 1/4 × 51 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Falstaff with Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)

1790 · Pen and brown ink over faint graphite

10 1/16 x 7 13/16 in. (25.6 x 19.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sleeping Woman with a Cupid (Hush)

1780 · Etching and drypoint; published state

Sheet (trimmed within plate line): 9 13/16 × 14 3/4 in. (25 × 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sketch for "Oath on the Rütli" (recto), Female Figure (verso)

1779 · Oil on canvas

76 × 67.5 cm (29 15/16 × 26 9/16 in.); Framed: 79.4 × 69.3 cm (31 1/4 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices

1777 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of black chalk underdrawing

sheet: 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 in. (25.8 x 34.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Menelaus and Patroclus, after the Antique (recto and verso)

1770 · Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and ink over graphite (verso)

Sheet: 9 7/16 in. × 7 in. (24 × 17.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (recto and verso)

1770 · Oil on canvas

Edges irregular, approx.: 40.6 × 29.8 cm (16 × 11 3/4 in.); Framed: 52.3 × 41.6 cm (20 9/16 × 16 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago