The power of beauty St. Cecilia charming the brute, or, The seduction of the Welch-ambassador. [graphic]

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Title: The power of beauty St. Cecilia charming the brute, or, The seduction of the Welch-ambassador. [graphic]
Alternative Title: St. Cecilia charming the brute
Seduction of the Welch ambassador
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [February 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. th [sic], 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
Abstract: "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 as Sir W. W. Wynn, but improbably."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Day of publication in imprint seems to have been burnished from plate.
1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28.0 x 38.5 cm.
Mounted on leaf 32 of volume 8 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Goats
Kissing
National emblems
Welsh
Subjects: Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817 > Caricatures and cartoons
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1772-1840 > Caricatures and cartoons
Courtship
Goats
Kissing
National emblems > Welsh
England > 1792
England > London > 1792
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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