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: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain.--Parliament, 1783-1784.
Great Britain.--Parliament--Elections, 1784.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Riviere & Son Binding.
Published / Created: [1784 April 14]
Copyright Date: [ca. 20 April 1784]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphry, 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: CtY-LW
Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed partially within plate mark.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Collection Title: The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825
Collection / Other Creator: Harvey, Francis
Collection Created: London
Container / Volume: Vol. 1 (Box 2 of 2) | Folder I-63

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1784.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1784.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-BR
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fox, Charles James,--1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Great Britain.--Parliament, 1783-1784.
Great Britain.--Parliament--Elections, 1784.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6543
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 129