The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins is a drawing in red chalk with brown wash executed between 1778 and 1780 by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It depicts an artist's response to
The artist's despair before the grandeur of ancient ruins by Johann Heinrich Füssli
Hand of the Colossus of Constantine
Henry Fuseli by James Northcote
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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.
The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins
…Künstler verzweifelnd vor der Grösse der antiken Trümmer) is a drawing in red chalk with brown wash executed between 1778 and 1780 by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It depicts an artist's response to ruins, namely those of the Colossus of Constantine at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The work was acquired by the…
Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent was Fuseli's diploma work for the Royal Academy, accepted 1790.
Head of Christ — etching and engraving by John Corner after a drawing by Henry Fuseli (1791), based on a work by Andrea del Verrocchio
The Nightmare (1781), Detroit Institute of Arts