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
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
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

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
15544212
Object ID (OID)
17355954

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