Michele Benedetti
(Italy, England 1745–1810)
after Henry Fuseli
(England 1741–1825)
- Title
- The apotheosis of Penelope Boothby
- Year
- 1796
- Media category
- Materials used
- stipple engraving
- Dimensions
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29.6 x 17.6cm image
- Credit
- Purchased under the terms of the Florence Turner Blake Bequest 2009
- Accession number
- 280.2009
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The painting on which this engraving is based was commissioned by Sir Brooke Boothby as a memorial to his daughter, Penelope, who died in 1791 at the age of five. The engraving formed the frontispiece to a collection of verse by Boothby in which there is a description of the composition:
Lo, the mild angel to receive her bends!
From the dark disk of this terraqueous ball,
The spotless shade to her own heaven ascends.
The towering Day-star, smiling points the way
To glorious regions, bright with cloudless ray!- Bibliography (1)
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David H Weinglass (Author), Prints and engraved illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli, 1994, (illus.). no.139
- Exhibition history (1)
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Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009.
