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Gothic NightmaresFuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, 15 February - 1 May 2006
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Room 8: The Nightmare in Modern Culture

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William Raddon after Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, published 20 April 1827
William Raddon after Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare published 20 April 1827
Proof engraving, 184 x 230 mm
Lent by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

William Blake, The Head of the Ghost of a Flea. Verso: A Profile and a Reduced Drawing of Milton's First Wife, circa 1819
William Blake
The Head of the Ghost of a Flea. Verso: A Profile and a Reduced Drawing of Milton's First Wife circa 1819
Pencil on paper, 189 x 153 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940

William Blake, The Ghost of a Flea, circa 1819-20
William Blake
The Ghost of a Flea circa 1819-20
Tempera heightened with gold on mahogany, 214 x 162 mm
Bequeathed by W. Graham Robertson 1949

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