Chapter II

The friends are accompanied in their journey by Professor
Sulzer.--They visit Augsburgh and Leipsic.--Arrive at
Berlin.--Fuseli furnishes some designs for Bodmer's work.--Baron
Arnheim.--Fuseli visits Barth, in Pomerania, where he pursues his
studies for six months under Professor Spalding.--Motives which
induce him to visit England, where he arrives in 1763, under the
protection of Sir Andrew Mitchell.--Lord Scarsdale: Mr. Coutts: Mr.
Andrew Millar: Mr. Joseph Johnson.--Fuseli receives engagements
from the booksellers.--His first residence in London: becomes
acquainted with Smollet: Falconer: A. Kauffman: Mrs. Lloyd: Mr.
Cadell: Garrick.--Fuseli accepts, and shortly after relinquishes
the charge of travelling tutor to the son of Earl Waldegrave.--His
first interview with Sir Joshua Reynolds.--His earliest production
in oil painting.--He visits Liverpool.--Takes part in Rousseau's
quarrel with Hume and Voltaire, (1767) and exerts his pen in the
cause of his countryman 22

CHAPTER III.

Fuseli leaves England for Italy in the society of Dr.
Armstrong.--They quarrel, and separate at Genoa.--Fuseli arrives at
Rome (1770).--His principle of study there.--He suffers through a
fever, and repairs to Venice for his health.--Visits Naples.--Quits
Rome (1778) for Switzerland.--Letter to Mr. Northcote.--Fuseli
renews his classical studies.--Visits his family at
Zurich.--Engages in an unsuccessful love-affair.--Arrives again in
London 46

CHAPTER IV.

Fuseli settles in London.--Interview with Mr.
Coutts.--Reconciliation with Dr. Armstrong.--Professor
Bonnycastle.--Society at Mr. Lock's.--Mr. James Carrick Moore and
Admiral Sir Graham Moore.--Sir Joshua Reynolds.--Mr.
West.--Anecdote of Fuseli and West.--The popular picture of "The
Nightmare."--Death of Fuseli's Father.--Visit to Mr. Roscoe at
Liverpool.--Fuseli's singular engagement to revise Cowper's
Iliad.--Three Letters from Mr. Cowper.--Anecdotes of Fuseli and Dr.
Geddes 57

CHAPTER V.

Subjects painted by Fuseli for Boydell's "Shakspeare Gallery."--His
assistance towards the splendid Edition of "Lavater's
Physiognomy."--His picture for Macklin's "Poets' Gallery."--His
contributions to the Analytical Review.--His critique on Cowper's
Homer 77

CHAPTER VI.

Fuseli's proficiency in Italian History, Literature, and the Fine
Arts, exemplified in his Criticism on Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici
110

CHAPTER VII.

Fuseli's Marriage.--His inducements to associate himself with the
Royal Academy.--He translates Lavater's "Aphorisms on
Man."--Remarks on his own "Aphorisms on Art."--Particulars of
Fuseli's acquaintance with Mrs. Wollstonecraft 158