Satan alighting on the Earth; Crucifixion; Chryses on the sea shore praying to Apollo to curse the Greek army: 3686.f.28

Materials used in production

Brown ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( buff, laid down; black ink mark lower right)
Upper-left Drawing Height 133 mm Width 84 mm
Drawing, Verso Height 200 mm Width 92 mm
Page Size Height 314 mm Width 194 mm
Upper-right Drawing Height 64 mm Width 42 mm
Lower Drawing Height 85 mm Width 98 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Recto: pen and brown ink on paper, laid down on buff paper, laid down on album sheet verso: pen and brown ink on paper, attached to album sheet: the drawing is held to the album sheet by a wax seal

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Satan alighting on / The Earth. - Dream (the following in blue-black ink) - 1804 -
• Location: Album sheet, below drawing (1)
• Method of creation: Brown and blue-black ink

• Text: Crucifixion
• Location: Album sheet, below drawing (2)
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: in Greek; from Homer, 'Iliad', I, L. 44

• Text: (Chryses on the sea shore praying to Apollo to curse the Greek Army)
• Location: Above drawing (3)
• Method of creation: Black chalk

• Text: (illegible)
• Location: Verso, album sheet and drawing
• Method of creation: Red wax seal

• Text: particles of matter .. / all of which we know ... / as animals have no immaterial soul nothing - can / produce it. / Behind the greatest powers of genius, there sits a ruling consciousnesss which proves a divine something / independent of the faculties - I believe firmly in / revelation I believe in the immateriality of the soul. / I shall only examine the arguments of those who / deny the other side, & who are just inconclusive / themselves -
• Location: Drawing verso
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3686.f.28
Primary reference Number: 10960
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints