A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

Text by Jonathan Swift (1667—1745). Art by E. J. Barnes. Poetry.

Sequential art illustrating in scratchboard the 1734 poem by Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift. A glamorous prostitute returns alone to her decrepit apartment, and undresses for a night of insomnia and nightmares.

36pp, color (scratchboard reproduced on cream/parchment background). Content warnings: Nudity, sexual situations, scatological allusions, police brutality, disease, vermin, filth, and squalor. Recommended for Mature Readers.