The sleep-walker [graphic].

Description

Title: The sleep-walker [graphic].
Alternative Title: Sleepwalker
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Sneyd, William, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 November 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: "Pitt, fast asleep, wearing only nightcap and night-shirt, walks down a staircase holding up a lighted candle in his right hand. On his right only are banisters, on his left the steps abut on a gulf indicated by the top of an arch supporting the stair; he is about to descend the first step, perilously near the left edge. Behind him, in a wall of heavy masonry, is an open door surmounted by a crown. A tall gothic window pierces the wall of the building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Possibly etched from a drawing by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue.
Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Provenance: Frederick B. Daniell & Son; November 1962;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 23 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic): Candlesticks
Castles & palaces
Interiors
Quatrefoils
Sleepwear
Somnambulism
Stairways
Subjects: Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Candlesticks
Castles & palaces
Interiors
Quatrefoils
Sleepwear
Somnambulism
Stairways
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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