Title: A Nightmare
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1775–80
Artist:  Giovanni David 
Artist bio: Italian, Cabella Ligure 1749–1790 Genoa
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and black and gray ink with gray and brown wash, heightened with white and yellow, over black chalk, set within a fictive mount, drawn with a blue wash border and black ink framing lines
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 1/16 in. (23.6 × 30.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2018
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY