Chodowiecki Cecilia 1–3
Left: “Well, my little chick; have you already had a love interest?”
Center: “Herr Mortimer Melville has found the very best woman.”
Right: “Poor, simple soul! and ashamed of your poverty?”
(Cecilia, oder die Geschichte einer reichen Waise. Aus dem Englischen [orig. Frances Burney, Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress (London 1782), 3 vols., attributed to Christian Felix Weisse. Illustrations from Lauenburger genealogischer Kalender von 1789.)
Chodowiecki Cecilia 4–6
Left: “I understand how to make tea better than anyone.”
Center: “She slips away — before any sin has seized her soul.”
Right: “I promised Miss Beverly, Madam, that you would graciously receive her.”
Chodowiecki Cecilia 7–9
Left: “Is that Cecilia?”
Center: “But what is a daughter, Madam, compared with such a son?”
Right: “No — this time we must not part thus.”
Chodowiecki Cecilia 10–12
Left: “But what a sweet, charming burden! Ah, why not thus forever?”
Center: “My dearest Miss Beverly! What a horrific scene have you had to witness!”
Right: “I will do it!”