The Night Mare
Medium
Stipple engraving, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 15/16 × 9 5/8 in. (22.7 × 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.608.46
Tags
Art Historical Context
**The Night Mare (1782)** is a striking stipple engraving in brown ink, measuring 8 15/16 × 9 5/8 inches, created by engravers Laure and Lenoir after the visionary artist Henry Fuseli. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum Art's Drawings and Prints as part of the Elisha Whitt Collection, it depicts a sleeping woman gripped by fear, accompanied by mythical creatures and a ghostly horse—hallmarks of nightmare folklore that blend the erotic, supernatural, and psychological. Fuseli, a Swiss painter who thrived in late 18th-century London, pioneered Romanticism's fascination with the irrational and su...
About the Artist
Laurede|Lenoir|Henry Fuseli (French|French|Swiss) · 1780 |1775 |1741 –1850 |1820 |1825
French, late 18th century|French, active 1775–1820|Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London