College pranks, or, Crabbed fellow's taught to caper on the slack rope [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[28 January 1811]eng"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right is a buxom young woman, pulling the rope. Two undergraduates flourish long-lashed whips, one aims a squirt, another lets off a squib. The aisle is divided from the nave by an iron railing; on the ground is a stone or brass with a mitre and crosier inscribed 'Here Lies the Body of Bishop Blear eyes'."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2."Price one shilling coloured."1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24.2 x 34.5 cm.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Watermark, partially trimmed: R & T [...?].Price statement mostly obscured by dark hand-coloring.Mounted on leaf 40 of volume 11 of 14 volumes.