Lot Essay
This drawing, together with lot ..., was on one of the pages in Miss Moore's album annotated by her 'Mrs Wainwright's.' For a possible identification of her as the wife of the notorious Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, see lot ...
For Lavinia de Irujo (1794 - after 1855) see lot ... Fuseli had a studio in Somerset House, then the home of the Royal Academy (he first became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1788 and a full member in 1790; from 1799 to 1805, and again from 1810 he was Professor of Painting, and he was also Keeper from 1804) and a number of his drawings of young girls are similarly inscribed with the initials 'S.H.', including lot ... (p.26)
For Lavinia de Irujo (1794 - after 1855) see lot ... Fuseli had a studio in Somerset House, then the home of the Royal Academy (he first became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1788 and a full member in 1790; from 1799 to 1805, and again from 1810 he was Professor of Painting, and he was also Keeper from 1804) and a number of his drawings of young girls are similarly inscribed with the initials 'S.H.', including lot ... (p.26)