![]() ![]() From 1790 on-wards, a myth, as peculiar as it is persistent, arose around the painting through a nonsense publication in the Public Adviser about the source of Fuseli’s creativity.īefore going to bed, Fuseli would eat raw pork to evoke fierce dreams in himself. The work was immediately copied by other artists and even by cartoonists of the time, who used the work to create a caricature of their political nightmares. With the Nightmare or Incubus, the Swiss-English painter Henry Fuseli hit the bull’s-eye. The WILL presides not in the realm of SLEEP In vain she wills to run, fly, swim, walk, creep In vain to scream with quivering lips she tries,Īnd strain in palsy’d lids her tremulous eyes Start in her hands, and struggle in her feet ![]() ‘O’er her fair limbs convulsive tremors fleet “The Nightmare” or “Incubus” in the 1781 version by Henry Fuseli ![]()
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