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Inscribed in graphite, on front, lower center: Cupid & Cephysia"; on back, lower center: "21920 2"

Lettered, center left along image: "Angelica Kauffman pinx.t"; center right along image: "Tho.s Burke Fecit."; lower center: "Cupid and Cephisa"; text is then divided into two paragraphs side by size, divided by a vertical black line, on the left the text is in French and on the right in English: " *Cephis says, we ought to cut the Wings of Love | that there may be no more inconstant men upon the | Earth, Stop Cephisa! She pays no attention to Me | *Montesquieu"; lower center below two paragraphs: "From the Original Picture, int he possession of George Bowles Esq.r | Publish'd Feb.y 1st 1789 by T Burke, N 5 great College Street, Westminster"