- Title:
- The Discovery
- Date:
- 1788
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 3/16 inches (39 x 28.4 cm) and Image: 12 9/16 x 10 1/16 inches (31.9 x 25.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
collector's stamp of the Paul Mellon Collection, in blue ink, on back, lower center, within two concentric circles: "PAUL MELLON | COLLECTION"
Lettered in black ink, along lower left border of oval image: "Painted by G. Morland"; along lower right border of oval image: "Engraved by E. J. Dumée."; lower center: "THE DISCOVERY. | Too plain the lines so faithless prove | The perjur'd Swain that scorns her Love | And prove too plain a Sister's Art | That won the Idol of her Heart. | London publish'd Jun 25th 1788 by J. R. Smith, No 34 King St Covent Garden."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11997
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- book | carpet | chair | costume | desk | earrings | feathers | fichu | flounces | genre subject | gown | grief | hat | interior | jewelry | key | letters (correspondence) | lock | love | melancholy | muslin | oval | papers (document genres) | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31596
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Print made by E. J. Dumée, active 1790, British, The Discovery, 1788
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