1844—
Letter to Maria Rotch
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“the lectures of artists upon art, for instance Flaxman, Sir J. Reynolds, Fuseli”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Author
Henry Fuseli(1741–1825)
Henry Fuseli is documented in Fuller’s letters (1844). One work is named, all in Letter to Maria Rotch, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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When Fuller engaged with Henry Fuseli
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Fuseli in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
1852—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“She read Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Duppa, Fuseli, and Von Waagen — great and small.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with the work of Henry Fuseli, a prominent figure in British art criticism. While no specific title is cited, fuller's reading of Fuseli likely encompassed his influential "Lectures on Painting" (1801), a key text on art theory and history, or his writings specifically on artists like Michelangelo.