Male Figure with Left Arm Raised Seen from the Back, and Fragment of Old Man

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Henry Fuseli / Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825
Date: 1770/75
Medium: Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 57.3 × 46.2 cm (22 9/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: ink or chalk wash
Place: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Accession no.: 1922.2155

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Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Henry Fuseli
1779–81 (recto); 1785–90 (verso) · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Two Heads of Damned Souls from Dante's "Inferno" (recto and verso)
Henry Fuseli
1770–78 · Painting
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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Ugolino and His Sons Starving to Death in the Tower
Henry Fuseli
1806 · Drawing
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
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