1783--The Weird Sisters--Perceval delivering Balisane from the
enchantment of Urma. (Vide Tale of Thyot.)--Lady Constance,
Arthur, and Salisbury. (Vide Shakspeare's King John.)
1784--Lady Macbeth walking in her sleep.--Œdipus with his
Daughters, receiving the Summons of his Death. (Sophocles.)
1785--The Mandrake; a charm. (Vide Ben Jonson's
Witches.)--Prospero. (Vide Tempest.)
1786--Francesca and Paolo. (Vide Dante's Inferno.)--The
Shepherd's Dream. (Vide Paradise Lost, Book I. line
781.)--Œdipus devoting his Son. (Vide Œdipus Coloneus of
Sophocles.)
1788--Theseus receiving the clue from Ariadne (a finished
Sketch.)
1789--Beatrice. (Vide Much Ado about Nothing.)
1790--Wolfram introducing Bertram of Navarre to the place where
he had confined his Wife, with the Skeleton of her Lover. (Vide
Contes de la Reine de Navarre.)
1792--Falstaff in the Buck-basket. (Vide Merry Wives of
Windsor.)--Christ disappearing at Emaus.
1793--Macbeth; the Cauldron sinking, the Witches vanishing.
(Sketch for a large picture.)--Amoret delivered from the
enchantment of Busirane, by Britomart. (Vide Spenser.)
1798--Richard the Third in his Tent, the Night preceding the
Battle of Bosworth, approached and addressed by the Ghosts of
several whom, at different periods of his Protectorship and
Usurpation, he had destroyed.
1799--The Cave of Spleen. (Vide Rape of the Lock.)
1800--The Bard. (Vide Gray.)--The Descent of Odin (ditto).--The
Fatal Sisters (ditto).
1801--Celadon and Amelia. (Vide Thomson's Seasons.)
1803--Thetis and Aurora, the Mothers of Achilles and Memnon the
Ethiopian, presenting themselves before the throne of Jupiter,
each to beg the life of her Son, who were proceeding to single
combat. Jupiter decided in favour of Achilles, and Memnon fell.
(Vide Æschylus.)
1804--The Rosicrusian Cavern. (Vide Spectator.)
1805--The Corinthian Maid.
1806--Count Ugolino, Chief of the Guelphs, of Pisa, locked up by
the opposite party with his four sons, and starved to death in
the Tower which from that event acquired the name of _Torre della
Fame_. (Vide Inferno.)--Milton dictating to his Daughter.
1807--Criemhild, the Widow of Sivril, shews to Trony, in prison,
the head of Gunther, his accomplice in the assassination of her
Husband.
1808--Cardinal Beaufort terrified by the supposed Apparition of
Gloucester. (Vide Henry VI. Part 2d, Act 3rd, Scene 3.)
1809--Romeo contemplating Juliet in the Monument. (Vide
Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet.)--The encounter of Romeo and Paris
in the Monument of the Capulets (ditto).
1810--Hercules, to deliver Theseus, assails and Wounds Pluto on
his Throne. (Vide Iliad, Book V. v. 485.)
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