Title from British Museum catalog description for a print after this design (see BM Satires 3032).
An etching attributed to printmaker Charles Mosley, for which this may have served as the preliminary design, was issued with the engraved caption "Iphigenia"; an impression of the print in the collections of the British Museum additionally bears an inscription in pen and ink in the hand of Horace Walpole: 'Miss Chudley maid of honour to the Princess of Wales in the character of Iphigenia at the Italian masquerade in the day time at Ranelagh's Gardens in June 1749'. Cf. British Museum catalog, BM Satires 3032, where Stephens notes that the date given for the event is incorrect.
Satire on Miss Chudleigh, shown at a masquerade ball dressed as the character Iphigenia, wearing a loose tunic with her breasts exposed, shown in the act of removing her mask as she is seized around the waist by a man wearing a long gown and a tricorne hat; in the background at left, two masqueraders dressed as "Punch" and "Judy" stand in conversation.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.