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

1. Sold Puttick and Simpson, London, October 23, 1914, no. 236, to William F. E. Gurley (died 1943), Chicago [part of a group of nineteen works by Fuseli acquired by Gurley as nos. 235 and 236 of this sale, described under the heading of “Original Drawings by H. Fuseli” as “Illustrations to Milton’s Poems.”]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1943 [they were not individually accessioned when they arrived at the Art Institute, but the heads can be identified from Gurley’s index cards preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings]; transferred from the Department of Prints and Drawings to the Department of European Painting, 1990; accessioned, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: French and British Paintings from 1700 to 1800, November 16, 1996–February 2, 1997, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Shockingly Mad: Henry Fuseli and the Art of Drawing, November 18-April 1, 2017.

• David H. Weinglass, “’Kann uns zum Vaterland die Fremde werden?’ In der Emigration: Johann Heinrich Füssli,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 23–24, 1991, p. 67.
• David H. Weinglass, Prints and Engraved Illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli: A Catalogue Raisonné, Aldershot, England, and Brookfield, Vt., 1994, pp. 41, 95, under nos. 50, 83.
• Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1996, pp. 226-32, ill.
• Frances S. Connelly, “Profound Play: The Image Tradition of the Comic Grotesque” in Comic Grotesque, Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870–1940, exh. cat. Neue Galerie, New York, 2005, p. 205, fig. 11.

Milton Dictating to His Daughter

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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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