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- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 20 April 1784] and [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 48. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Covent Garden nightmare
- 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., and On leaf 48 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Great Britain. Parliament, 1783-1784., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Draperies, Demons, and Horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Covent Garden night mare [graphic]