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The unfortunate discovery.
1777
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Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Call Number
- E South 11/GC021/Box 05/Normal/18th c./Artists C-Dighton GA 2011.00563
- Publisher
- London : [s.n.], 1777/07/24.
- People
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- Author
- Collet, John, 1725?-1780
- Language
- No linguistic content
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The unfortunate discovery.
- Call Number
- E South 11/GC021/Box 05/Normal/18th c./Artists C-Dighton GA 2011.00563
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcm326md48t
- Publisher
- London : [s.n.], 1777/07/24.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1777
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 30.5 x 22.4 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Mezzotints, Hand coloring
- Depiction: Caricature; adultery scene. Woman opens door to find husband kissing chambermaid.
- Numbered in plate, lower left: "263".
- Signed in plate, lower center: "From the original picture by John Collete, in the possession of Carington Bowles".
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e3f0cc87-64d8-4bf8-b32a-3d1092e6256f/manifest