Das Gefängnis

1805/1807

not on display
Henry Fuseli1741 Zürich – 1825 Putney Hill/London
We have 117 artworks by Henry Fuseli online.
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The lines from William Cowper's book 'The Task' that Füssli illustrates here are about being imprisoned in a very general way – striving for freedom and the liberation of soul and spirit (The Task, V, 774-778). The picture served as a model for the engraving by Charles Warren in the edition 'Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.' published by J. Johnson in 1806. David H. Weinglass: Prints and engraved Illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli. A catalogue raisonné (Aldershot 1994), no. 274.
Also known as
The Prison
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 91 x 71 cm
Inventory number
1976/0023
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by friends of René Wehrli on the occasion of his resignation as director of the Kunsthaus, 1976