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Lot Essay
A taste for fantastic and supernatural themes permeated culture in Britain from around 1770 to 1830 and Füssli – with his predilection for the horrific and the erotically charged – emerged at its centre.
As early as the 1780s, the artist began to explore his interest in the mystical, demonic, and mythological. This double-sided sheet can be dated to between 1810-1820 (according to G. Schiff) and is typical of Füssli's characteristically erotic œuvre, with the elaborate hairstyles depicted both recto and verso much like those in his drawings of courtesans.
As early as the 1780s, the artist began to explore his interest in the mystical, demonic, and mythological. This double-sided sheet can be dated to between 1810-1820 (according to G. Schiff) and is typical of Füssli's characteristically erotic œuvre, with the elaborate hairstyles depicted both recto and verso much like those in his drawings of courtesans.