"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
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
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., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
