Lady Cecilia Johnston leans forward to kiss the nose of a large goat which puts a hoof on her chest. Engraving by James Gillray, 1792.

  • James Gillray
Date:
Feb 1792
Reference:
585379i
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Description

Gillray satirises Lady Cecilia's aged and repulsive coquetry

Publication/Creation

[London] (No 18 Old Bond Street) : H. Humphrey, Feb 1792.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.2 cm (width only).

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Lettering

The power of beauty; - St Cecilia charming the brute; - or - the seduction of the welch ambassador. 390

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 6, 1938, no. 8158

Reference

Wellcome Collection 585379i

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