Milton Dictating to His Daughter

1. Sent by the artist to William Roscoe, Liverpool, in 1800, apparently in exchange for funds already advanced by Roscoe [Weinglass 1982, pp. 217-18, 224]; sold by Roscoe before August 20, 1802, possibly to John Stuart, 1st marquess of Bute (d. 1814) [see Weinglass 1982, p. 250 for the sale of this and three other paintings, and Warner 1996, p. 219 n. 4 for the likelihood that Bute was the buyer]. In the possession of his grandson, John Crighton-Stuart, 2nd marquess of Bute, by 1831 [Knowles 1831, vol. 1, p. 221 lists Bute as the owner of this painting]. Ernest Permain, London, 1930, possibly on consignment; offered for sale, G. and L. Bollag, Zurich, March 28, 1930, no. 56, pl. VII, bought in [letter of January 24, 1994 from Max Bollag to Malcolm Warner in curatorial file]; sold in London to Galerie Bollag, Zurich, March 10, 1932 [according to letter of Max Bollag cited above and another of December 15, 1993]; private collection of Léon Bollag (d. 1958), Zurich; his estate; then, from 1968, his son Max Bollag, Zurich [according to letters cited above]; sold by him to E. V. Thaw and Co., New York, by February 1973; sold to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Christie’s Great Rooms, The Milton Gallery, 1799–1800, no. 40.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1825, 1969, no. 52.
• Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, John Milton, Related Art, 1974 (no cat.).
• Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Johann Heinrich Füssli. Das verlorene Paradies, September 27, 1997–January 11, 1998, cat. 85.
• Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Füssli: The Wild Swiss, October 14, 2005- January 8, 2006, no. 185.
• Kunstmuseum Basel, Fuseli. Drama and Theatre, October 20, 2018-February 17, 2019.

• John Knowles, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Esq., M.A., R.A., vol. 1 (London, 1831), p. 221.
• Arnold Federman, Johann Heinrich Füssli: Dichter und Maler, 1741–1825 (Zurich and Leipzig, 1927), p. 172.
• David Irwin, “Fuseli’s Milton Gallery: Unpublished Letters,” Burlington Magazine 101 (1959), p. 436 n. 1.
• Hugh Macandrew, “Henry Fuseli and William Roscoe,” Liverpool Libraries, Museums, and Arts Committee Bulletin 8 (1959–60), p. 47.
• Hugh Macandrew, “Selected Letters from the Correspondence of Henry Fuseli and William Roscoe,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 62 (1963), pp. 210, 215, 225.
• Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füsslis Milton-Galerie, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft Zürich, Schriften Nr. 5 (Zurich and Struttgart, 1963), pp. 13, 18, 20, 108–11, 113 (ill.), 116, 139, 158, no. 40.
• Marcia R. Pointon, Milton and English Art (Toronto, 1970), pp. 251–52, 260.
• Gert Schiff, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741–1851 (Zurich and Munich, 1973), vol. 1, pp. 166, 177, 221–23, 524, no. 921, p. 542; vol. 2, fig. 921.
• “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 83 (1974), p. 131, fig. 419.
• John David Farmer, “Henry Fuseli, Milton, and English Romanticism,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 68, 4 (1974), pp. 14–19, ill.
• David H. Weinglass, ed., The Collected English Letters of Henry Fuseli (Millwood, N.Y., 1982), pp. 117, 127, 155, 167–68, 213, 217–18, 224, 250.
• Peter Tomory, “Henry Fuseli’s Milton When a Youth,” Art Bulletin of Victoria 27 (1986), p. 27.

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

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

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Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower

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

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Perseus Starting from the Cave of the Gorgons

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Hercules Killing the Mares of Diomedes

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Portrait of a Woman (Martha Hess)

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The Discovery (recto), Two Sketches of Standing Male Figures (verso)

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