- 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]
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- Published / Created:
- [12 April 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.04.12.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Fox is being chaired by demons, who advance towards flames (left) in which stands a devil with a pitch-fork waiting to receive him. Fox, seated, holding out his hat, his left hand on his breast, says, "Westminster was pretty Hot but this much more so". The demons who support Fox's chair and prance along behind it appear to have been copied from the Devil in British Museum Satires No. 6283. The foremost has the same twisted ram's horns, the claws of a bird of prey, and barbed tail. He shouts "Fox for Ever". His companions resemble him with slight variations. One also says "Fox for Ever", another, holding up a dice-box, says, "He is the Devels own Representative". Two little demons stand in front of the flames; one says "Fox for Ever", holding up a fox's brush, the other blows a trumpet. Two heads of demons look from the fire, and two small black winged creatures are flying in the flames."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Man of the people below stairs, Infernals' choice, and Infrnals' choice
- Description:
- Title etched above image., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: Tho Reynard for Westminster's surely thrown out, Yet Hell will elect him you need not to doubt, As member theyve chaird him the only thats fit, To manage affairs in the Bottomless Pitt., Temporary local subject terms: Election litters -- Allusion to 'Belowstairs' -- Gambling: Dice-box -- Demons -- Pitch-forks -- Chairing: Fox -- Election slogans: 'Fox for ever' -- Election slogans: 'Man of the people'., and Mounted to 31 x 47 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. April 12, 1784, by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Great Britain. Parliament
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1784, Devil, Demons, Chairs, Pitchforks, and Political elections
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The infrnals [sic] choice, or, The man of the people below stairs [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 June 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.06.19.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Elections: Westminster, 1784 -- Fortune tellers -- Pens -- Inkwells -- Tables -- Furniture: chairs., and Watermark in center of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd June 19, 1784, by J. Barrow, White Lion, Bull Stairs, Sury side Black Friars Bridge
- Subject (Name):
- Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Demons and Zodiac
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The question resolved [graphic].