The usurping professer in the chair [graphic].

Description

Title: The usurping professer in the chair [graphic].
Alternative Title: Usurping professor in the chair
Published / Created: [1768]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Five lines of text below image: The second part will be published as soon as possible of the anonymous lettr. writer & seven memrs [sic] running away with the books of the Society of Painters from a majority of seventeen ...
Temporary local subject terms: Societies: Free Society of Artists -- Incorporated Society of Artists -- Academies: founding of the Royal Academy of Arts -- Devil -- Furnishings: hooks -- Wine bottles and glasses -- Lighting: candles.
Mounted to 34 x 45 cm.
Watermark.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; Dec. 1966 ; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1768
Etchings England London 1768
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774
Subjects: Kirby, Joshua, 1716-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1768
England > London > 1768

Access: Public
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