Dormio innocuus, vix impune expergefeceris (While I sleep I am harmless, but you wake me up at your peril) (after Angelica Kauffman)
William Wynne Ryland (London 1733 – Tyburn 1783)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
6 May 1776
Materials
Paper
Place of origin
Strand
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732698
Summary
Print, engraving, Dormio innocuus, vix impune expergefeceris (While I sleep I am harmless, but you wake me up at your peril) (after Angelica Kauffman) by William Wynne Ryland (London 1733 – Tyburn 1783). Two ladies, standing with a mountain behind, attempting to wake with their wand, a sleeping cupid his arm resting on a closed book.
Makers and roles
William Wynne Ryland (London 1733 – Tyburn 1783), engraver after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist