A man fast asleep with his head back and wig dangling. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1806.

Selected images from this work

The sleeping man's pipe is lying on a paper entitled "Political register"

London (27 St. James's Street) : H. Humphrey, 1 November 1806.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 24.6 x 20.6 cm

Fast-asleep.

Companion plate: "Wide-awake" (record number 10746 in this catalogue)

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VIII, London 1947, no. 10644

Wellcome Collection 10745i

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