Cleveland Museum of Art

Evening Thou Bringest All

Date

1803

Medium

Pen lithograph

Culture

England, 18th-19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. The title of this print is drawn from a poem by the classical poet Sappho.

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