Love & learning, or The Oxford scholar [graphic]

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Title: Love & learning, or The Oxford scholar [graphic]
Alternative Title: Love and learning
Oxford scholar
Creator: Smith, Benjamin, -1833, engraver
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Published / Created: [12 May 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 12th May 1786, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: 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
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."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Sanders; March 1962;
Extent: 1 print : 25 cm circular image with plate mark 39.5 x 32 cm, on sheet 42.4 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Stipple engravings England London 1786
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman
Material: etching & engraving with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Courtship
Couples
Envy
Kissing
Students
Young adults
Subjects: Courtship
Couples
Envy
Kissing
Students > Great Britain
Young adults > Great Britain
England > London > 1786
J Whatman

Access: Public
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