# A Woman Sitting by the Window (“Evening Thou Bringest All”), from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

- By: Henry Fuseli (published by Philipp André (German, active London, 1800–1805); and James Heath (British, 1757–1834))
- Date: 1802, published 1803
- Medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image/primary support: 23.2 × 31.8 cm (9 3/16 × 12 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 37.2 × 49 cm (14 11/16 × 19 5/16 in.)
- Culture: United Kingdom
- Credit line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/228999)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/475c5c6e-c332-c2f6-8ee3-04d8dbbea309/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Specimens of Polyautography (published 1803), the portfolio of lithographs that included Fuseli’s print (as well as James Barry’s Eastern Patriarch and Benjamin West’s Angel of the Resurrection), contained the first lithographs published in Britain.

Lithography is a form of printing in which a drawing is made directly on limestone, which is then moistened and inked, the ink adhering only to the drawn marks. The resulting print thus retains the immediacy of the original drawing. The Greek inscription on Fuseli’s print, a quote from the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho which was reversed in the printing process, means “Evening, thou bringest all \[things home\].”

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