Artist: Thomas Holloway (1749-1827) after a drawing by Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825)
Title: St John
Date: 1791
School: British, XVIIIth-century
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: 170 x 120 (image), 227 x 167mm (plate), 360 x 295mm (sheet)
Watermark: none
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate lower left <<Fuseli Delin.t>>, in the plate lower right <<T Holloway Direxit.>>, in the plate lower centre <<S.T JOHN>>, in the plate lower right <<81>>
Condition: Good condition on wove paper with wide margins
Description: Head of St John the Baptist, in profile to left and looking up, his left arm raised and in outline, a band around his forehead; after Fuseli, illustration to Lavater’s ‘Essays on Physiognomy’. 1791
Reference: See BM 1870,1008.2791 for a description of this print.
