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James Gillray
1756-1815
Cymon & Iphigenia / Js. Gy. desn. ; T. Adams [Gillray] sculpt.
hand colored etching
image: 23.9 x 27.3 cm; sheet: 25.3 x 28.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2949
Published:
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1796.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Trimmed to within plate mark.
Summary:
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat black country-woman sleeps against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the right, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise.
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