US-CtW-DAC/lido-ORID0003224
Davison Art Center 1962.51.3
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crm-concepts/#E22
Man-Made Object
print
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300133025
works of art
Image
Weird Sisters: Ministers of Darkness, Minions of the Moon
Unsigned; inscribed in margin, upper center: “To H. Fuzelli [sic] Esqr. this attempt in the Caricature Sublime is respectfully dedicated”
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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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1962.51.3
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
41.55442,-72.65729
7014047
Middletown
41.55442,-72.65729
Published 23 December 1791 by Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
sheet dimensions: 247 x 351 mm (9.7 x 13.8 in.).
creation
Created by James Gillray (British (English), 1757-1815)
500017355
James Gillray
Gillray, James
British (English)
1757
1815
male
Created by
1791
1791
1791
Etching and aquatint with hand coloring on wove paper
James Gillray
provenance
acquisition
Purchase funds, 1962
caricatures
literature (writings)
Macbeth (play)
magic
occult sciences
political caricature
politics
Shakespeare (William)
theater (discipline)
witches
Wright, pp. 135–136; BM Sat 7937 ; Drayer Hill, Fashionable Contrasts, no. 2; Mr. Gillray, p. 45, fig. 43; see Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art (New Haven, CT: Yale 1981), cat. no. 55; note in pencil on original DAC catalog card: “Although published two years after the event, the print is a commentary on the Regency Crisis, precipitated by George III’s illness. Three members of the cabinet & Dundas (1742–1811) appointed Home Secretary in June 1791, William Pitt, the Younger (1759–1806), and Lord Thurlow (1732–1806), the Lord Chancellor.”
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ORID0003224
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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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CC0
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj6118
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2022-03-30
DAC_1962-51-3_001_249.jpg
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US-CtW-DAC/lido-ORID0008821
Davison Art Center 1968.17.1
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crm-concepts/#E22
Man-Made Object
print
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300133025
works of art
Image
The Witches
Signed in plate, lower right: “P.W. Tomkins Sculpt. Pupil of F. Bartolozzi”
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0000 0001 2291 0150
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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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1968.17.1
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
41.55442,-72.65729
7014047
Middletown
41.55442,-72.65729
Published 30 August 1786 by T. Macklin, London
plate dimensions: 257 x 308 mm (10.1 x 12.1 in.).
creation
Created by Peltro William Tomkins (British (English), 1760-1840)
500007802
Peltro William Tomkins
Tomkins, Peltro William
British (English)
1760
1840
male
Created by
After John Raphael Smith (British (English), 1751-1812)
500116497
John Raphael Smith
Smith, John Raphael
British (English)
1751
1812
male
After
After Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741-1825)
500115235
Henry Fuseli
Fuseli, Henry
Swiss
1741
1825
male
After
1786
1786
1786
Stipple engraving on laid paper
Peltro William Tomkins after John Raphael Smith after Henry Fuseli
provenance
acquisition
Purchase funds, 1968
magic
occult sciences
witches
Not in Nagler (XXI, 188–90); see Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art (Yale 1981), cat. no. 49 on one of Fuseli’s versions of the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783 (10).
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ORID0008821
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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
CC0
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj13460
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/results.html?layout=dac-lido&format=xml&maximumrecords=1&recordType=objects_1&query=_ID=13460
2022-03-30
DAC_1968-17-1_001_249.jpg
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