Lot Essay
Comparable in handling to a drawing in Julius Held's collection, (Binghampton, University Art Gallery and elsewhere, Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Held, 1970, no. 147, illustrated) and to another in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, N. L. Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Early Romantic Art of the 1770's, exhib. cat., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, no. 115, illustrated.