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James Gillray
1756-1815
The power of beauty : St. Cecilia charming the brute, or, The seduction of the Welch ambassador.
hand colored etching
image: 243 x 335 mm; plate: 250 x 350 mm; sheet: 272 x 378 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2762
Published:
[London] : Pubd. Feby th [sic] 1792 by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street, [1792]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Title from caption.
Printmaker from BM Satires.
Summary:
Lady Cecilia Johnston (three-quarter length), seated in an armchair in profile to the left, leans forward to kiss the nose of a large goat which puts a hoof on her chest. Identified by Grego (improbably) as Sir W.W. Wynn.
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