"A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the right, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray., Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia', 1767, adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular. It was the subject of a picture by Reynolds., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., 1 print : stipple engraving & etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.7 x 31.3 cm., and Mounted on leaf 14 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the right, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
Description:
Title etched below image., Thomas Adams is one of the pseudonyms used by Gillray., Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia', 1767, adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular. It was the subject of a picture by Reynolds., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 2d, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
A burlesque of the discovery by Cymon of Iphigenia asleep. A fat country-woman, whose dark skin and coarse features give her a negroid appearance, leans against a sandy bank. A hideous yokel, advancing from the left, stoops towards her, dropping his stick and gaping with delighted surprise. In the background (left) is a gate. David Garrick's 'Cymon and Iphigenia' (1767), adapted from Dryden's version of Boccaccio's tale, made the story familiar and popular
Alternative Title:
Cymon and Iphigenia
Description:
Title etched below image., Copy in reverse of James Gillray's print of the same name. Cf. No. 8908 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., No. 8 in an album of 10 prints., and Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Title from caption below image., Restrike. Date of printing based on watermark., Publisher's advertisement below image in lower right: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of eight pairs of figures in two rows, with lines of dialogue etched above each pair., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 12., For other prints in the set, see the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8925, Temporary local subject terms: Female costume, 1796 -- Male costume, 1796., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1822.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jaunary [sic] 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Marriage, Military uniforms, and British
Volume 2, page 95. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sailor looks at a soldier on duty on a fort by the sea, while a civilian couple look out through a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a set of six plates by Shepheard after Bunbury that were first published by Thomas Macklin., For a mention of the reissued set of plates published 1 January 1809 by J. Deeley, see no. 11456 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., and Mounted on page 95 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 10th, 1796, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
