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  • A sleeping woman is disturbed in her dreams by a winged figure pointing to five people in the clouds above; representing the interpretation of dreams. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • Joseph tells his unsympathetic family about his two prophetic dreams. Line engraving by G. de Jode.
  • Joseph telling his brothers his dreams. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • A young man, on his way to London, dreams of a successful future. Photograph after C. Nanteuil.
  • A young man, on his way to London, dreams of a successful future. Photograph after C. Nanteuil.
  • Jacob finds rest in a rugged landscape and dreams of a ladder of angels. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa.
  • A Scottish soldier sleeping after battle dreams of a reunion with his wife and family. Colour wood engraving by Edmund Evans after F. Goodall.
  • A treatise on the incubus, or night-mare, disturbed sleep, terrific dreams, and nocturnal visions; with the means of removing these distressing complaints / [John Augustine Waller].
  • An artist dreams that he is painting the portrait of the Devil disguised as a virtuoso: episode in a fable by John Ogilby. Etching attributed to F. Barlow, 1673.
  • The Kalpasutra (the heroic deeds of the conquerors) a Prakrit Manuscript dated 1503. Minature showing the fourteen dreams of Queen trisata, wife of Siddhartha (Buddha), who now carries Mahavira in her womb.