Cymon & Iphigenia [graphic].

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Title: Cymon & Iphigenia [graphic].
Alternative Title: Cymon and Iphigenia
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
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 left, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise. In the background (left) is a gate. David Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (1767), adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular
Description: Title etched below image.
Copy in reverse of James Gillray's print of the same name. Cf. No. 8908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
No. 8 in an album of 10 prints.
Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Provenance: Given to the Lewis Walpole Library by Shepard Krech in memory of Annie Burr Lewis who died 9 May 1959; May 1959; With the bookplate of Shepard Krech, engraved by E.B. Bird.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Stipple engravings England London 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Sleeping
Subjects: Couples
Sleeping
England > 1796
England > London > 1796

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