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May 2, 2007
Angela Rosenthal Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006. 352 pp.; 101 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300103336)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.40

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In 1775 an artist named Nathaniel Hone submitted a painting called The Pictorial Conjuror, Displaying the Whole Art of Optical Deception (1775) to an upcoming exhibition at the British Royal Academy. The painting depicted in its top left corner an image of the Swiss artist Angelica Kauffman frolicking naked with other naked artists, among them her friend Joshua Reynolds, who is shown lewdly jabbing his oversized, trumpet-shaped hearing aid in the direction of Kauffman’s parted...