The Covent Garden night mare [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The Covent Garden night mare [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Covent Garden nightmare
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Gillray, James, 1756-1815, attributed name.
Field & Tuer, publisher. - Published / Created
- [approximately 20 April 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
- Abstract
-
A parody of The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in which 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.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.
Restrike; design has been altered with the addition of a covering over Fox's naked legs, and the erroneous signature "Gillray" has been added in lower left. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6543 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Plate originally published ca. 20 April 1784; see British Museum catalogue.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 129.
Temporary local subject terms: Prudery.
On leaf 48 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. - Provenance
- Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 36 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Leaf 48. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
- Collection Date
- [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Parodies, imitations, etc
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England London 1868
Restrikes - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825.
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784.
Great Britain. Parliament - Subject (Topic)
-
Elections, 1784
Beds
Sleeping
Nightmares
Draperies
Demons
Horses - Subjects
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Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 > Parodies, imitations, etc
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784
Great Britain. Parliament > Elections, 1784
Beds
Sleeping
Nightmares
Draperies
Demons
Horses
England > 1784
England > London > 1868
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15544212
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355954
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