The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches, Henry Fuseli, 1796
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches, 1796, Oil on canvas, 40 x 49 3/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London), This canvas, first exhibited in 1799, was sold by the artist in 1808 to his biographer, John Knowles. It illustrates a passage from Paradise Lost (II, 622–66) in which the hellhounds surrounding Sin are compared to those who 'follow the night-hag when, called, / In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance / With Lapland witches, while the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms
Size: 3483px × 2772px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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