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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Henry Fuseli

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Henry Fuseli
Age: 84 †
Born: 1741
Born: January 1
Died: 1825
Died: January 1
Draftsperson
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Painter
Poet
City of Zurich
Johann Heinrich Füssli
R. A. Henry Fuseli
Jean-Henri Fuseli
Johann Heinrich Fuzelli
Esq. Henry Fuseli
Johann Heinrich
the Younger Fussli
Heinrich
II Füssli
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the Younger Fussli
Johann Heinrich
the Younger Fuseli
Henry
the Younger Fussly
Henry Fusely
Johann Heinrich Fuzeli
Henry Füessli
Johann Heinrich
the Younger Fussly
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