Philosophy

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Dream Images



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Japan in the 1880s, from the Dutch National Archives:




1741, Henry Fuseli. The Nightmare (1781) is one of his best known works. More dreams in art here:



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A young Joseph Grimaldi, dressed as a monkey, getting propelled into the audience when the rope his father was swinging him round by snapped - illustration by George Cruikshank from the Memoirs.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/14/the-memoirs-of-joseph-grimaldi/









Job’s Evil Dreams (1805), by William Blake, from a series of 19 watercolours illustrating the Book of Job that Blake painted in 1805-6 for Thomas Butts – Source.













Yume no ukihashi, or The Bridge of Dreams (1854), by Utagawa Toyokuni – Source.





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