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A nightmare   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Frederick Sandys

Published by: Smith, Elder & Co
Title
A nightmare
Description
English: A parody of John Everett Millais's painting 'A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford' with John Ruskin as a braying ass ridden by Millais, and Hunt and Rossetti as the two children whom the old knight in the painting is carrying across the ford; a tower and arched bridge in the background, three figures representing Titian, Raphael and Michelangelo praying by the side of a pond with a scroll lettered, "Orate p[ro] nobis". From the knight's armour hangs a can of paint with the lettering "PRB", and branded onto the backside of the donkey is "J[ohn]R[uskin] OXON"; three columns of verse on a scroll below the image. 1857
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Depicted people Portrait of: John Everett Millais
Date 1857
date QS:P571,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 446 millimetres
Width: 490 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1859,0709.848
Notes

The portrayal of Ruskin as a braying donkey is a reference to his savage criticism of Millais's painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1857. Sandys had made Rossetti's acquaintance when he called on him in order to study his appearance at first hand and the two men became friends; after the death of Rossetti's wife in 1862 Sandys became one of his intimate circle for a few years.

For further information, see 'Burlington Magazine', cvii (1965), p. 251; J. A. Gere, Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, 1994; Betty Elzea, "Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné" (Antique Collectors' Club, 2001, p.130-133).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-0709-848
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