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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Head of a woman 1777 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Woman seated at a table with sheet music before 1825 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Sleeping woman with flying Cupid ca. 1780-90 etching British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Head of a woman 1770-78 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Crouching witch coaxing mandrake root out of the earth (from Ben Jonson's Masque of Queens) 1812 etching British Museum |
Last night, lay all alone
On the ground, to hear the Mandrake groan,
And plucked him up, though he grew full low,
And, as I had done, the Cock did crow.
– Ben Jonson, from The Masque of Queens, celebrated from the House of Fame by the Queen of Great Britain with her Ladies at Whitehall, Feb. 2, 1609
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| Henry Fuseli Heavenly Ganymede greeted by young god with Hebe watching 1804 lithograph British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Figure studies ca. 1795-1800 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli The Captive 1782-83 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Oedipus cursing his son Polynices (Sophocles) 1777-78 drawing British Museum |
"Be off, spat upon by me who am no more your father, villain of villains, taking with you these curses which I call down upon you, so that you shall never conquer in war your native land nor ever return to low-lying Argos, but shall perish by your brother's hand and kill him who drove you out! Such is my curse, and I call upon the hateful paternal darkness of Tartarus to give you a new home, and I call upon these goddesses, and upon the war god, who injected this grim hatred into your minds! Now that you have heard this, depart, and go tell all the Cadmeans and your own trusty allies too that such are the prizes which Oedipus has bestowed upon his sons!"
– from Oedipus at Colonus, prose translation (1994) by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Tiresias and Odysseus (The Odyssey) 1774-78 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Tiresias drinks the blood (The Odyssey) 1774-78 drawing British Museum |
At the length did land
Theban Tiresias' soule, and in his hand
Sustaind a golden Scepter, knew me well,
And said: "O man unhappy, why to hell
Admitst thou darke arrivall and the light
The Sunne gives leav'st, to have the horrid sight
Of this blacke region and the shadows here?
Now sheath thy sharpe sword and the pit forbeare,
That I the blood may taste, and then relate
The truth of those acts that affect thy Fate."
– from book 11 of Homer's Odyssey, translated (1614) by George Chapman
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| Henry Fuseli Prometheus rescued by Heracles before 1825 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Ezzelin, Count of Ravenna, surnamed Bracciaferro (Iron Arm) confronting Meduna with her infidelity during his absence in the Holy Land 1772 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Ezzelin, Count of Ravenna, surnamed Bracciaferro (Iron Arm) musing over the body of Meduna, slain by him for infidelity during his absence in the Holy Land 1779 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Jason and Medea stealing the Golden Fleece 1806 oil on paper British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Two Men 'smoking' a picture 1774 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Scene in the Hospital of S. Spirito in Rome with three monks performing Last Rites on a resisting occupant 1772 drawing British Museum |