Thomas Holloway - The Descent of Odin, 1800, Henry Fuseli

Odin seated at the entrance to the underworld, pointing up to a vision of the norns mourning his son balder, a horse in the shadows behind him and two hands emerging from the ground by his feet; after a drawing by fuseli (schiff 1416), illustration to 'the poem's of gray'; proof before all letters. Date: 1800. Medium: etching and engraving.