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

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Title: The power of beauty [graphic] : St. Cecilia charming the brute, or, The seduction of the Welch-ambassador.
Alternative Title: Seduction of the Welch ambassador
St. Cecilia charming the brute
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons.
Williams-Wynn, Watkin,--1772-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1792 February
Copyright Date: [February 1792]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 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: Day of publication in imprint seems to have been burnished from plate.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched above image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on laid paper ; 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

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1792.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1792.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia,--Lady,--1727-1817--Caricatures and cartoons.
Williams-Wynn, Watkin,--1772-1840--Caricatures and cartoons.
Subject (Topic): Courtship.
Goats.
Kissing.
National emblems--Welsh.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8158
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 390
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 139