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1. A view from Peter House, Cambridge [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [January 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 53. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Barnes, wearing cap and gown, a clerical wig, and bands, stands in profile to the right. He is tall, with a fierce Punch-like profile. A second imprint is etched in reversed characters in the shadow at his feet: 'Whitt . . . NĀ° 31 Shoe La[ne], London'."--British Museum online catalogue and "Francis Barnes, D.D., Master of Peterhouse from 1788, was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1813 to 1838, but gave no lectures. He was 'a disreputable survival from the eighteenth century'. Winstanley, 'Early Victorian Cambridge', 1940, pp. 80, 175."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 53 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Dr. Barnes" in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Barnes, Francis, 1744-1838
- Subject (Topic):
- Philosophers and Teachers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Peter House, Cambridge [graphic]