Lot Essay
This is one of the drawings annotated by Miss Moore as 'Mrs Wainewright's'. For the possible identifications of this previous owner with the wife of the notorious Thomas Griffiths Wainewright see lot ...
This drawing is similar in type to a number of studies done, according to Schiff, in the later 1770s (S. 505-8) and engraved for the English edition of J.C Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, published by Joseph Johnson in 1792 (S. 971-2; see also lot ...), and also to the crossed arms in Fuseli's self-portrait drawing of 1794 in the National Portrait Gallery (S. 1743). If the reading of the date is correct, however, this must be a later, independent study. The reference to 'gloves' in Fuseli's inscription draws attention to the way in which he has depicted them with their characteristic sheen
This drawing is similar in type to a number of studies done, according to Schiff, in the later 1770s (S. 505-8) and engraved for the English edition of J.C Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, published by Joseph Johnson in 1792 (S. 971-2; see also lot ...), and also to the crossed arms in Fuseli's self-portrait drawing of 1794 in the National Portrait Gallery (S. 1743). If the reading of the date is correct, however, this must be a later, independent study. The reference to 'gloves' in Fuseli's inscription draws attention to the way in which he has depicted them with their characteristic sheen