A nude Woman seated on another partial nude Figure, with further Figure Studies (recto), and Two Women attending to a Child with a further Figure Study (verso)

A taste for fantastic and supernatural themes permeated culture in Britain from around 1770 to 1830 and Füssli – with his predilection for the horrific and the erotically charged – emerged at its centre.

As early as the 1780s, the artist began to explore his interest in the mystical, demonic, and mythological. This double-sided sheet can be dated to between 1810-1820 (according to G. Schiff) and is typical of Füssli's characteristically erotic œuvre, with the elaborate hairstyles depicted both recto and verso much like those in his drawings of courtesans.