Plate 63. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of scholars at Oxford stare with vacant expressions at a lecturer holding an open book with title "Datum Vacuum". He is identified by Paulson as William Fisher. All are wearing square trencher caps. See Paulson
A promenade under trees, with college buildings forming a background. Ladies walk arm-in-arm with undergraduates; four dons walk alone. Four of the foreground figures are adapted from Dighton portraits of 1808. On the extreme left stands Dr. Kett ......
Description:
Title and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819, Kett, Henry, 1761-1825, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
"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 acade...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Families, Social mobility, Students, Teachers, Teaching, and Portraits
The wide street, lit by a full moon, is filled by a wild fight between undergraduates and their supporters (for whom gowns had been obtained by looting a tailor's shop) and 'bargees, and the butchers, and labourers'. A stage-coach, Old Fly, crowded i...
Alternative Title:
Battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford, Battle of the togati and the town raff in the High Street Oxford, and Town and gown
Description:
Title and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Students, Butchers, Crowds, Fights, Occupations, Stagecoaches, and Tailors
