print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.930
- Title
- Object: Cymon and Iphigenia
- Description
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A youth raises his hands in surprise at the sight of a girl sleeping on the edge of a pond, in the left foreground; with trees behind; an illustration to the cantata. 1783
Hand-coloured mezzotint
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 354 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database]
(i) lettered with the title, four lines of verse in two columns 'From the favourite Cantata of Cymon and Iphigenia // He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought ... He gap'd he star'd, her lovely form survey'd.' and 'Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, // No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London // Publish'd as the act directs, 2 Jan: 1783.'
(ii) republished by Bowles & Carver; 'Carington Bowles' replaced with 'Bowles & Carver', year altered to 1800. [impression with CLB]
See also 1935,0522.1.170, an impression with the date erased from the paper, presumably a later reissue of an impression of (i)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.930