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Courtesans, prostitutes, society ladies and myth. The drawings and preparatory sketches of Henry Fuseli.

The incredible sketches of Henry Fuseli (1741 – 1825), the Swiss Protestant minister who hounded out of Zürich for exposing a corrupt magistrate and landed on his feet in London by forging a career painting the supernatural.

Mrs. Fuseli, at a table in front of a curtained niche (1799)

Two Girls At A Cabin Window (1779)

The Debutante (1807)

Back View of a Standing Female, Called Mrs. Fuseli (1810)

Study of a Seated Woman (1791)

Ariadne Watching the Struggle of Theseus with the Minotaur (c.1815 to 1820)

Ariadne Watching the Struggle of Theseus with the Minotaur (c.1815-1820)

Sketch for “Oath on the Rütli,” Female Figure (verso) (1779)

Male and female dancer (1814-20)

Fall of hell from the damned (1752)

Hagen and the Nymphs of the Danube (1802)

The artist moved to despair at the grandeur of antique fragments (c.1778–1879)

The artist moved to despair at the grandeur of antique fragments (c.1778–1879)

Macbeth and the Three Witches. Illustration for Shakespeare’s Macbeth, IV,1 (1773)

An Old Man Murdered by Three Younger Men (early 1770s)

The death of Achilles (1780)

King Priam Begging Achilles For The Body Of Hector (c.1805)

Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven II (late 1790s)