- Title:
- The Choice
- Date:
- 1737
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 5/8 x 15 1/8 inches (27 x 38.4 cm), Plate: 9 15/16 x 14 inches (25.2 x 35.5 cm), Image: 9 3/16 x 13 15/16 inches (23.4 x 35.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, center left: "#50"; lower left: "S 412"; lower right: "The Choice | J. Faber"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "By Pray'r, but More by Gold, the Miser-Swain | Would tempt ye Nymph to Love, but tempts in vain: | P. Mercier Pinxt. I. Faber fecit."; lower center: "More king she seems the Rustic Boor to prize, | With all the Gust of Passion in his Eyes: | The First, on hopes of Gain alone would move; | The Latter, on mere Nature founds his Love:"; lower right: "This Picture hence this Moral may Impart | Nature's the Surest Guide to reach the Heart. | Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head by Bloomsbury Church"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.893
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arch | church | coins | collar | costume | courtship | drapery | genre subject | gesture | gown | hats | leisure | men | nobility | purse | sack | steeple | table | woman | wooing
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22584
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 56, no. 239, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]