The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker[23 May 1799]eng"Satire on a socially aspirational family: a youth is being examined by a tutor for admission to Cambridge university; the tutor, in academic robes, is seated at a table pointing at a large mathematical volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from caption below image.Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 3 Jan. 1774 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge.Watermark: I. Taylor.