A handsome young man embrasses a pretty young woman wearing a fashionable hat as the stand in a grove of trees; he leans toward her, their checks touching. To the right, another pretty young woman peaks out from behind a tree and watches the pair with a distressed look on her face
Alternative Title:
Love and learning and Oxford scholar
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Below title and above imprint statement, six lines of verse in two columns: Beauty invites and love & learning plead; The Oxford scholar surely must succeed, Yet Oh, ye blooming soft inclining fair, Of his too fatal eloquence beware; For see a slighted fair one is behind with jealous eye & most distracted mind.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1786, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Couples, Envy, Kissing, Students, and Young adults
Copy of a self-portrait by William Hogarth; the artist is portrayed as if on an oval canvas resting on a pile of books; in the foreground, his dog Trump, his burin and palette
Description:
Title from item., Plate engraved after the original oil painting, done in 1745, now in the Tate Gallery, London. Hogarth himself engraved this image in 1749; cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., On verso, stamp of the copperplate manufacturer: [Whitto]w & Son, N. 43 Shoe Lane, Holborn, London., and For the print produced from this plate, see: Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 2, page 538, no. 10.
Publisher:
Published June 4, 1795, by J. & J. Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside; & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall
