"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.1348., A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43., On same sheet: Miseries of London., and Mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Families, Social mobility, Students, Teachers, Teaching, and Portraits