Comment on Venus Priapus
Here it is apposite to mention the English painter Richard Cosway (1742-1821), who in 1775 caricatured a group of named art connoisseurs by depicting them in the throes of a collective orgiastic experience while beholding a classical Venus sculpture: 
Richard Cosway, Charles Townley with a Group of Connoisseurs, The Lecture on Venus’s Arse, 1775, Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Burnley, Lancashire.
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