The night mare [graphic]

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Title: The night mare [graphic]
Alternative Title: Nightmare
Creator: Chapman, J. (John), active 1792-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 May 1799]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published May 1, 1799, by J. Whittle, Peterboro' Court, Fleet Street, for the Anti Jacobin Review
Description: Title etched below image.
Also attributed to Gillray. Cf. Wright.
The design probably derives from Fuseli's 'Nightmare', travestied in other British satires. See examples no. 6543, 8555 and 8671.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine. London, 1799, v.3, p. 99.
Temporary local subject terms: Jacobins -- Newspapers: Morning Chronicle -- Books: William Godwin (17565-1836), Enquiry concerning political justice -- Books: Gilbert Wakefield (1756-1801), Reply to ... the Bishop of Landaff's -- Standards -- Slogans: vive la liberté -- Interiors: bedroom -- Furniture: half-tester bed -- Chamberpots -- Reference to Louis-Marie de La Revellière-Lépeaux (1753-1824) -- Weapons: daggers -- Horses -- Demons -- Parodies: Fuseli's Nightmare.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; January 1964;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Etchings England London 1799
Material: etching with roulette ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
La Revellière-Lépeaux, Louis-Marie de, 1753-1824 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1799
England > London > 1799

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