From the same series of drawing as lot p. 27, q.v. Of the groups of figures on the recto that on the left is unnumbered and is distinct in drawing style and the kind of ink used. It is based on an Antique mourning group or a Renaissance or post-Renaissance Pietá. The central group, numbered '42', is clearly derived from Michelangelo's fresco of David about to cut off Goliath's head in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, but has been transferred by Fuseli into the much more suggestive group of a woman riding a man on all fours with her arm raised as if wipping him; this motive may come from Michelangelo's drawing of Samson and Dalila in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The group on the right, '43' could be derived from a Madonna and Child with infant St. John, but the mother's ornate hair has been completely secularised. On the verso, '40' is based on Michelangelo's lunette figure of Aminadae in the Sistine Chapel, while '41' combines elements from the Prophet Isaiah and the ignudi