text:  Mr Fuseli has collected several instances of attempts something similar in pictures particularly by Massaccio and Raffaelle from him; and he well remarks--"We must conclude that Nature herself dictated to him this method as superior to all he could express by features; and that he recognized the same dictate in Massaccio who can no more be supposed to have been acquainted with the precedent of Timanthes than Shakspeare with that of Euripides when he made Macduff draw his hat over his face