Object number1967.17

The Weird Sisters

Date1785

Artist John Raphael Smith (English, 1751 - 1812)

after Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825)

CultureEnglish, Swiss

MediumMezzotint

DimensionsImage: 17 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (43.82 x 55.25 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 23 3/8 in. (46.99 x 59.37 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

SignedSigned (on plate, LR): Engraved by J. R. Smith Mezzotint Engraver to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

InscribedInscribed (LL): Painted by H. Fuseli; (LC): Shakespeare Macbeth Act. Ist / each at once her choppy finger THE WEIRD SISTERS laying / upon her skinny lips / London Published March 10th 1789 by J. R. Smith No. 83 / Oxford Street.

Catalogue raisonnéFrankau 371BibliographyFrankau 371.

Vassar Exhibitions

'For through the painter you must see his skill': Shakespeare in Art from the Permanent Collection

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

Exhibition History"Master Printmakers: Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 9 April 1992 - 19 July 1992;

"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.

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