Henry Fuseli
Study of a figure (ca.1774-1778, British Museum)
This appears to be a study for the drawing of ‘Buoncante da Montefeltro’. Fuseli’s figures defy gravity and logic, and it is almost impossible to tell which way up this design should be viewed. An early commentator wrote that one of Fuseli’s compositions showed ‘such incomprehensible sublimity’ that it was said to have been hung upside down at the Royal Academy!