Paul Cameron Brown
Sleep is a striking woman accosted by various men while in dance; The warring desires thus present themselves as on a battlefield – hunger comes arrayed with red plumes to befit his appetites, sensuality somewhat decked out as a dandy in a mauve waistcoat and, of course there is fear, the most thwarted of the suitors, bejeweled with a flashing sabre, rattling it from the tail of his skinny stick horse, the pale charger riding to intercept the beautiful courtesan, Sleep, bestowing her favors illicitly wherein she would but choose.
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