LECTURES
PAINTING
DELIVERZD AT THE ROYAL ACADIMY
MARCH 1801.
Br HENRY FUSELI, P.P.
WITER ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS AND NOTER
LONDON:
+RINTED FOR /. 20MNSON, ST. PAUL'S CRURCR-TARD,
1801.
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Yıir bida un Mhudder at the Thouglts of Life.
Who would be bora ao fach s phascom World,
Where noughe Subliantial, but cur Min’ry ?
Where Joy (if Joy) bet heighccns our Difirch,
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A Workl, wire dark, anyftericun Vanity
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Abb.2 J. Sharpe, Stich nach Füsslis « Melancholie» Abb. 3 Erste Ausgabe der Lectures on Painting von
1804. London, British Museum Füssli, London 1801. Zürich, Zentralbibliothek
William Blake, Illustration für Night Thoughts Abb.5 Johann-Heinrich Füssli, «Der Traum des
von Edward Young, 1795-1797. London. Sokrates», Berlin-Ost, Staatliche Museen.
British Museum <upferstichkabinett