Nightmare Collection

The Witchs Frolic by Alfred Bestall
The witchs frolic, taking place on Hallowe en, the date when Saman, Lord of Death

Goblin Market by Pauline Baynes
Illustration by Pauline Baynes depicting a scene from Goblin Market, the poem by Christina Rossetti

The Income Tax Official in Hades by H. M. Bateman
A tax man from the Inland Revenue suffering his worst nightmare - locked in a cage suspended over a pile of cheques and money he cannot reach. Cartoon by H. M

Studdys Nightmare by George Studdy
Bonzo and Co. get their own back on the artist, after the Christmas pudding

Kiplings terrible nightmare

Christmas postcard, Man having a nightmare about food. Date: 20th century

The Cat's Nightmare, comical cat with mice on his tail, drawn by Louis Wain Date: 1891

Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516, Dutch/Netherlandish painter from Brabant. Representative of the Early Netherlandish painting school. Jerom Bos

President Roosevelt has a nightmare - invasion by the Japanese Yellow Peril Date: 1907

Bad Dream Of A Customs Officer
A colourful illustration which shows a nightmare of a customs officer, where prohibited items are smuggled across the border including alcohol, oil and tobacco. Date: circa 1901

Cartoon, John Redmond, Irish Home Rule
Political cartoon, John Redmond, Irish politician, Home Rule and After, by Louis Wain Date: 1914

Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungle
An unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters

WILHELM II German Emperor has a vision of Death and asks himself: "Will it be my turn next?" 1916

Comic postcard, I dreamt I was married
Comic postcard, Man has nightmare - I dreamt I was married!! Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Censors Dream after a course of pantomimes. 1870

Comic design, Disturbed by the Night Mare. 1831

When Women Vote Washing day. Mans worst nightmare - the housework is his domain, pictured washing his own shirts whilst holding the screaming baby. His duties are spelled out on a chart on the wall

A Medieval nightmare
This hand coloured woodcut showing a human headed bird grappling a man is from Jacobus Meydenbacks Hortus Sanitatis

Dinner Party with Thirteen People
THIRTEEN AT TABLE - the hostesss ultimate nightmare ! Date: 1925

Cartoon, The Kaisers dream, WW1
Cartoon, The Kaisers dream (or nightmare) after losing at Verdun -- a ginger-haired angel holding a rabbit. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Promis d Horrors of the French Invasion, or, Forcible Reasons for negotiating a Regicide Peace, Vide, The Authority of Edmund Burke, by James Gillray

Suffragette Ghost Horrible Nightmare. Man wakes up to find a ghost in shroud, holding a gun to his head, and brandishing a VFW placard. Caption reads, A Horrible Nightmare Date: circa 1907

Joseph Chamberlain dream of Paul Kruger feeding him medicine
The Story of Cruel Joseph (cont.) - Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) dreams of being doctored (fed medicine) by a smiling South African Transvaal Republic leader Paul Kruger (1825-1905). Date: 1899

Stage Fright by Jack Gordge
An actress stands by a theatre curtain, terrified to go on stage, a phobia personified by a menacing shadowy figure behind her. Date: 1927

WW1 - launch of 95 USA Transport Ships - 1918
A Bad Dream for Von Tirpitz translates into reality (Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz - German Grand Admiral, Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office) - In a single day

A Nightmare
Ho(a)rse laughter - a study in a horses facial expressions and a bit of a nightmare. Date: 1930s

GERMANIAs NIGHTMARE
Germanias nightmare. Date: 1915

Father Christmas apparition on a Christmas card
Father Christmas awful apparition on a Christmas card -- he appears to be terrorising three edible birds with strings of sausages and onions. Date: circa 1890s

His Dual Obsession by Bairnsfather
His Dual Obsession Owing to the frequent recurrence of this dream

FUSELI, Johann Heinrich (1741-1825). The Nightmare. 1790 - 1791. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. Frankfurt. Goethe House and National Goethe Museum

The trust promoters nightmare. Illustration shows a man, possibly Robert A. Ammon, waking up from a nightmare that shows a criminal labeled Miller and 520 per cent breaking stones in a prison

Horrible nightmare of a worthy old gentleman

A Russian woman is having a nightmare showing disasterous defeats of the Russian army and navy on all fronts in the war against Japan; she is being attended to by a doctor who is taking her pulse

A Christmas nightmare. Illustration shows two children surrounded by broken toys

A charm against Fairies by M. Reed
A rather alarming illustration (at least to any new parents) depicting a baby being spirited away by fairies who leave a wizened changeling of their race in its place while its mother sleeps

Little Red Riding Hood by Felix de Gray
Little Red Riding Hood visits her Grandma only to find that her facial hair problem has got somewhat ou of control. Date: 1934

I dreamt I slept at Madame Tussaud s
I dreamt I slept at Madame Tussauds ! A satirical depiction. Date: 1847

Forty Warm Winks
Bonzo, the canine cartoon character created by George Studdy and hugely popular during the 1920s, is pictured getting closer and closer to the fire and on drowsing off

British Ballad, The Eve of St. John
THE EVE OF SAINT JOHN. British ballad written by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Trench Nightmare Cartoon
A self-portrait caricature by Walter Henry Clark, describing a nightmare he suffered whilst in the trenches during WW1

Ww1 Cartoon / Usa Joins
The Germans starry nightmare as the USA enters the war

Mania / Rail Nightmare
The Government - well, Lord Brougham, at any rate - are haunted by the nightmare of railway speculation

Mona Lisa Nightmare
M. Homelle, director of Frances Musees Nationaux, suffers nightmares when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre !

Reporting / Helle, 1908
Comment on the total lack of privacy for public figures (the Presidential nightmare in France)

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