seated in an inward angle of the composition! and so the picture remained during the whole time of exhibition:
Fuseli seeing a person for some time looking steadfastly at one of his pictures in the Academy, went up to him and said, "He must be a devilish clever fellow who painted that picture!" at which the gentleman smiled, knowing it to be the production of the artist who accosted him.
Fuseli was heard to relate, that he begged a curious fly of his friend Lady Guildford, for a collector, to whom he had been under some obligations; her Ladyship gave him the insect, upon condition that his friend should not kill it. Fuseli observed that he should not kill it; but, as a mental reservation, he got somebody else to do it
Fuseli once asked Cooper, who is an Entomologist, "Well, have you taken Fraxina?"[1]—"No," said he, "I have not been so fortunate,"—"You can get it in Yorkshire," observed Fuseli; "why don't you walk there?"
All Fuseli's family had been Entomologists; and so attached was he to the pursuit, that one evening, late in life, when descending from the rostrum, after he had delivered a Lecture on
- ↑ One of the Underwings.
