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The Discovery   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Goldar

After: John Collet
Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Title
The Discovery
Description
English: Satire on sexual attempts by mistresses on servants: an over-dressed plump mistress sitting on the side of curtained bed graspes the hand of a young footman who looks down modestly keeping his other hand in his pocket; a monkey on a chair holds a copy of "An Essay on Man", while under the chair is a copy of "The Ladies Amusement"; the lady's lapdog raises its leg and scratches behind its ear; through a door bhind them can be seen a maidservant holding a finger to her nose as she lets the angry master of the house see what his wife is doing. 10 March 1774
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Depicted people Associated with: Alexander Pope (allusion to his "Essay on Man")
Date 1774
date QS:P571,+1774-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 310 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1878,0713.1316
Notes Part of a series: see BMSat.4613 to 4615.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1878-0713-1316
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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