The Covent Garden night mare [graphic].

Description

Title: The Covent Garden night mare [graphic].
Alternative Title: Covent Garden nightmare
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 20 April 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Abstract: A parody of The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in which a naked Fox lies prone on a bed with a demon on his chest. Behind them a horse with bulging eyes pokes his head through the bedcurtains. On a table in the foreground are a pair of dice and dice-box
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24.1 x 33.8 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark.
Formerly mounted on leaf 63 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic): Elections, 1784
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784
Great Britain. Parliament > Elections, 1784
England > 1784
England > London > 1784
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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