The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Evening Thou Bringest All
1803
(Swiss, 1741–1825)
publisher
(German, active London 1800–1805)
Sheet: 23.6 x 32.2 cm (9 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Schiff 1434; Weinglass 171
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The title of this print is drawn from a poem by the classical poet Sappho.Description
Here, the free expression of the artist’s drawn lines echoes the frenzied movement of his hand and the excited energy of the woman’s twisting body. While the immediacy of the mark marking suggests direct contact between the paper and the artist’s pen, the reversal of the Greek text at lower left exposes this work as a printed image, breaking the illusion. Created using lithography, a newly invented medium, the artist drew his composition on a specially prepared limestone. The stone was then inked and printed, reversing the image in the process.- ?–1940Lewis B. Williams [1880–1966], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHDecember 30, 1940–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Woman on a Sofa. Mentioned: p. 35 archive.org
- Imagination in the Age of Reason. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).Two Hundred Years of British Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 9, 1984-February 3, 1985).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1113