Friday 24 March 2006, 13.00–14.00

Art historian Nicola Bown traces the sources of Henry Fuseli's fairy paintings in the eighteenth-century awakening of interest in the supernatural, the growing fascination with myths and legends, the cult of Shakespeare and the idea of the imagination as something wild and untameable which produces ‘fancies of fairies and spirits and nonsense’.

Dr Bown teaches Victorian studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and co-edited The Victorian Supernatural (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Tate Britain  Manton Studio
Free, no bookings taken

    

This event is related to the Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination exhibition