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Henry Fuseli — The Nightmare (Goethe-Haus version) | Symbolist Art PrintHenry Fuseli — The Nightmare (Goethe-Haus version)

Artist · 12 prints

Henry Fuseli Prints

About Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), born Johann Heinrich Füssli in Zürich, Switzerland, was a painter and writer who spent most of his career in England and died in London. He first trained for the church, but after political trouble he left Zürich and settled in London in 1764. Encouraged by Sir Joshua Reynolds to take up painting, he spent 1770 to 1778 in Italy studying Michelangelo and classical art.

Henry Fuseli loved the strange, the supernatural and the theatrical, taking subjects from Shakespeare, Milton and dark folklore. His most famous painting, The Nightmare (1781), shows a sleeping woman with a demon crouched on her chest and a wild-eyed horse peering through the curtains. Shown at the Royal Academy in 1782, it made him famous, and it is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. He painted for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and in 1799 staged his own Milton Gallery. He became a professor of painting at the Royal Academy, and his bold, dramatic style influenced the younger William Blake.

Henry Fuseli prints: reproductions of paintings, drawings and a lithograph by the Swiss-born English painter Henry Fuseli, made between 1776 and 1820. The collection includes The Nightmare (1781), The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth (1784), The Shepherd's Dream (1786), Satan and Death, Separated by Sin (1792) and Theodore Meets in the Wood the Spectre of His Ancestor (1783).

This selection focuses on his literary and supernatural subjects: Milton's Satan, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, Boccaccio's spectre, witches from Ben Jonson and Greek tragedy. The works share dark backgrounds, pale, strongly lit figures and stretched, theatrical poses, with several scenes of sleep and dreams.

The dark, dramatic palettes suit libraries, studies, dining rooms and hallways with warm lighting, and the larger works suit a wall where they can be seen from a distance. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

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The Nightmare (Goethe-Haus version) by Henry Fuseli — A sleeping woman, a crouching imp and a ghostly horse's head
Henry Fuseli — The Nightmare (Goethe-Haus version) | Symbolist Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Theodore Meets in the Wood the Spectre of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti by Henry Fuseli — A spectral rider and hounds hunt a fleeing woman in a dark wood
Henry Fuseli — Theodore Meets in the Wood the Spectre of His Ancestor Guido Cavalcanti | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven by Henry Fuseli — Satan strains upward on a rock with his fist raised against the sky
Henry Fuseli — Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
The Shepherd's Dream by Henry Fuseli — Fairies wheel in a ring above a shepherd asleep beneath a tree
Henry Fuseli — The Shepherd's Dream | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Owl with Spread Wings over a Reclining Woman by Henry Fuseli — A great horned owl spreads its wings over a woman lying stretched out
Henry Fuseli — Owl with Spread Wings over a Reclining Woman | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Evening Thou Bringest All by Henry Fuseli — A young woman twists across a couch towards a curtained window
Henry Fuseli — Evening Thou Bringest All | Lithograph Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Satan and Death, Separated by Sin by Henry Fuseli — Satan raises his spear as Sin flings herself between him and Death
Henry Fuseli — Satan and Death, Separated by Sin | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear by Henry Fuseli — Winged Satan leaps up as two angels drive their spears at him
Henry Fuseli — Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli — A crouching incubus and a pale horse loom over a sleeping woman
Henry Fuseli — The Nightmare | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth by Henry Fuseli — A sleepwalker with a candle stares wide-eyed through a dark chamber
Henry Fuseli — The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices by Henry Fuseli — A blind old king points a curse at his cowering son
Henry Fuseli — Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00
Scene of Witches, from The Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson by Henry Fuseli — A hag crouches in a ring of red while an imp rides a bird overhead
Henry Fuseli — Scene of Witches, from The Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson | Art Print Sale priceFrom $165.00