An image derived from Henry Fuseli painting titled "The Nightmare" from 1781. The incubus has been replaced with a caricature of Napoleon. This image shows a woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers,...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825. and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Sleeping, Nightmares, Chamber pots, and Books
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 20 June 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Atttics, Bedroooms, Nightmares, Sleepwear, and Spiders
"In a squalid room Johnson and Boswell lie in two short truckle beds. Boswell (right) is in the foreground, his face contorted with horror, his hands before his mouth as if to stifle a scream, his bare feet drawn up, but projecting over the end of his...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 20 June 1786, by E. Jackson No. 14, Mary bone [sic] Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Boswell, James, 1740-1795, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Subject (Topic):
Atttics, Bedroooms, Nightmares, Sleepwear, and Spiders
"Boswell (left) rises in terror from his bed, at the sight of a headless man in Highland dress, the head replaced by a headsman's axe surmounted by a Scots cap. This spectre, irradiated, advances from the right and draws aside the curtain of the bed. ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 15th, 1786, by E. Jackson, No. 14 Mary-le-bone Street, Golden Square
Subject (Name):
Boswell, James, 1740-1795 and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
[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.
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
A comic nighttime scene: a man in his night cap stands in the entrance of his front doorway holding a blunderbuss under his arm and a lit candlestick in his hand. He and his dog both show alarm at the sight of a horse tied to the knocker on the door. ...
Alternative Title:
Disturbed by the nightmare
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by J. Bulcock, 163 Strand, July 1, 1828, & at Paris by H. Rittner, Boulevard Montmartre
A man looks up in horror at the image of a demon, smoking a pipe and holding a lantern, sitting astride his sleeping wife beside him in their truckle bed. A horse looks on, his head poking through the casement window. Beside their bed is a candle, ch...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by W. Holland, October 26, 1794, No. 50 Oxford Steet [sic]
An incubus squatting on a sleeping woman, her head and arms falling over the side of the bed at right, with a wild horse behind curtains in the background and a small table with jug and pots beside the bed at left; after the painting by Fuseli (Schiff...
Alternative Title:
Nightmare
Description:
Later state with scratched letters, including the title, a quotation from Ermasus Darwin's 'Botanical Garden' "on his Night-Mare, thro the evening fog, Flits the squab fiend o'er fen, and lake, and bog, Seeks some love-wilder'd maid, by sleep opprest,...
"A glutton lies in bed, asleep, assailed by the fish, flesh, and fowl of a City dinner. A huge turtle is on top of him, a lobster pinches his nose, a pheasant swoops to peck an eye. He holds in each hand a bottle labelled 'Wrights Cham[pagne]' [see Br...
Alternative Title:
Lord Mayor's Day nightmare and Fatal effects of gluttony
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Printed by C. Motte, 23 Leicester Sqre
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Nightmares, Beds, Animals, and Champagne (Wine)
