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The Covent Garden night mare
Title
The Covent Garden night mare [graphic] / Gillray.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand [i.e. Field & Tuer], [approximately 20 April 1784]
Manufacture
[London] : [Field & Tuer], [approximately 1868?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.1 x 36 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Prudery.
Notes
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.
Provenance
Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Covent Garden nightmare
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 17, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1784.
Etchings - England - London - 1868.
Restrikes.
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