The Covent Garden night mare [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[approximately 20 April 1784][approximately 1868?]engA 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-boxTitle 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.