print
- Museum number
- 1872,0511.385
- Title
- Object: The Discovery
- Description
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A young woman standing with her hands raised in distress, looking away towards the window to right, her bonnet untied and her bodice lacing loose, rebuked by an older woman, who sits to left, a bible open on a table beside her and a dog at her feet, pointing angrily at love-letters which she has discovered; in an oval.
Stipple engraving
- Production date
- 1770s-1790s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 417 millimetres (oval, without border)
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Height: 531 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 407 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,0511.385