Thomas Holloway - Count Ezzelin Bracciaferro Musing over the Body of Meduna, 1791, Thomas Holloway

The count sitting at a table with his head in his hand, looking to front as he muses over the death of his wife who he has slain for her infidelity, lying at his feet with an altar with crucifix and skull beside her head; after a painting by fuseli in john soane's museum, illustration to lavater's 'essays on physiognomy'. Date: 1791. Medium: etching and engraving.