Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state ; to which pious and unprecedented exercises is prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking ; the facts, attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen ; and the discourses, correctly noted by clerical stenographers / by several medical gentlemen.
Devotional somnium is a 1815 New York publication printed for its proprietor by S. Marks, recording prayers spoken by Rachel Baker during her sleep, with medical and clerical attestations. The single engraved portrait shows a young woman with curled hair, a frilled ruff and a draped shawl, rendered in fine stippled tone against a soft cloudy ground, a model for soft gradients and shadowed frontispiece portraiture.
