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Hand-coloured caricature: a sleeping man in bed, a seated man with a tax bag, and three donkeys looking in from the right.

Extraordinary Case of Night-Mare: John Bull, Peel and Donkeys

A hand-coloured lithograph caricature shows a sleeping man in a bed, watched by a seated figure clutching a bag marked with tax wording, while three donkeys peer in from the right. A lit candle and a small box marked "Empty" stand on a side table, beneath the caption "Extraordinary Case of Night-Mare!"

Artist
John Doyle
Date
23 April 1842
Medium
Caricatures Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3152 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1842.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Night and Dreams19th century1840s1842caricaturelithographhand-colored printdonkeypolitical satirenightmare

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