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Weird Sisters

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Three Men Looking at Moon
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This satirical commentary on the Regency Crisis and the madness of George III portrays the leading government officials of the time—Pitt the Younger, Edward Thurlow, and Henry Dundas—as the the three witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth, parodying Fuseli's own depiction of the "weird sisters."

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Folios of Caracatures lent out for the Evening

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The Night Mare

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Man in Bed Having Nightmare
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This political caricature satirizes Fuseli's The Nightmare, utilizing the latter's Gothic theme to combine a fear of the unknown with a critique of government exploitation.John Bull (indicated by the name on the chamber pot under his bed) sleeps under a grey blanket, surrounded by green curtains. His mouth is open as he snores.

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Midnight

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Two Figures in Bed
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Henry Fuseli is known for his grotesque, eerie images, especially The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781 (Fuseli 64). In Midnight, a much earlier work, he creates a contrast between light and darkness that is reminiscent of the spectacle shows of the Romantic era.

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the Bible

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Abraham and the Angels

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Three Angels and Abraham
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John Skippe was better known as a collector than as an artist, and he is generally considered an amateur with regard to both his woodcuts and his later paintings (Burch 78). However, he did introduce an old Italian tradition into the world of Romantic Britain, creating this particular woodcut in the style of Antonio Maria Zanetti.

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Arcana Coelestia

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Evil Spirits Cast Out

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Infant Christ Casting Out Demons
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This image is an illustration for paragraph 1271 of Emanuel Swedenborg's Arcana Coelestia. This paragraph describes demons who

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Paradise Lost

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The Fall of the Rebel Angels

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Angels falling from Heaven
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John Martin was one of the most popular artists of his day. The artist Thomas Cole, the author Victor Hugo, and the composer Hector Berlioz all drew inspiration from Martin’s work. He was one of the few painters who did his own engravings. The text of Paradise Lostitself was also a consistent source of inspiration for Romantic art.

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