Object number1971.23

Weird Sisters: Ministers of Darkness, Minions of the Moon.

Date1791

Artist James Gillray (English, 1757-1815)

CultureEnglish

MediumEtching and aquatint in brownish-black ink with watercolor on cream wove paper with an E & P watermark and unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt)

DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. (25.08 x 35.24 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 5/8 in. (27.31 x 37.15 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Timothy Cole Fund

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

SignedNot signed, dated (LR): Publ Dec 23, 1791

InscribedInscribed (LR): by H. Humphry - No 18. Old Bond Street; (UC): To H. Fuzeli Esqr. this attempt in the Caricatura-Sublime is respectfully dedicated.

Catalogue raisonnéWright and Evans 68BibliographyHart, Katherine W., with Laura Hacker, James GIllray: Prints by the Eighteenth Century Master of Charicature. Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, 1994.

Vassar Exhibitions

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial

Exhibition History"James GIllray: Prints by the Eighteenth Century Master of Charicature," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 15 November 1993 - 1 May 1994;
"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996;

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY SECOND SIGHT: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object January 14-April 10, 2005.

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial," April 11 - June 29, 2014.

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