File:William Blake after Fuseli - Falsa ad Coelum ca1790.jpg

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© The Trustees of the British Museum Larger image Use digital image Print record . Full: Front . .

Department: Prints & Drawings

Registration number: 1882,0812.221

Bibliographic reference Weinglass 112 Schiff 1348 Bindman 80 Essick 1983 XXXIV

Location: British XVIIIc Mounted Roy

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Object types print (all objects)

Title (object) Falsa ad Coelum Materials paper (all objects) Techniques etching (scope note | all objects) Production person Print made by William Blake (biographical details | all objects) After Henry Fuseli (biographical details | all objects) Production place Published in London (scope note | all objects) (Europe,British Isles,England,London) Date 1790 Schools /Styles British (all objects)

Description Allegory of a dream of love; a partially draped woman reclines sleeping on a couch, right; a butterfly is alighted on her thigh; a human figure with an elephant's head - Gaṇeśa - kneels bottom right, pointing towards the title; two cupids are seen escaping through the window, left; a third remains within, shooting an arrow at the woman; behind her, a nude male figure stands statue-like, his right finger on his lips; he represents the Egyptian God Harpocrates. c1790 Etching

Inscriptions Inscription Content: Lettered within image with object title, "Falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes".

Dimensions Height: 257 millimetres Width: 389 millimetres

Curator's comments This is the only known impression of this print.