Evening Thou Bringest All (1803): Art, History and Details

Evening Thou Bringest All (1803) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825); Philipp H. André (German, active London 1800–1805).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Here, the free expression of the artist’s drawn lines echoes the frenzied movement of his hand and the excited energy of the woman’s twisting body. While the immediacy of the mark marking suggests direct contact between the paper and the artist’s pen, the reversal of the Greek text at lower left exposes this work as a printed image, breaking the illusion. Created using lithography, a newly invented medium, the artist drew his composition on a specially prepared limestone. The stone was then inked and printed, reversing the image in the process.

Object facts

• Title: Evening Thou Bringest All
• Date: 1803
• Creator attribution: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741–1825); Philipp H. André (German, active London 1800–1805)
• Culture: England, 18th-19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: Pen lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 23.6 x 32.2 cm (9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1940.1113

A detail from the museum

The title of this print is drawn from a poem by the classical poet Sappho.

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Woman on a Sofa.

View the collection record

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