Cymon & Iphigenia [graphic]

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Title: Cymon & Iphigenia [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cymon and Iphigenia
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [2 May 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 2d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Abstract: "A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the right, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray.
Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia', 1767, adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular. It was the subject of a picture by Reynolds.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Stipple engravings England London 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: stipple engraving & etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Sleeping
Subjects: Couples
Sleeping
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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