Ah me! what perils doth that youth encounter, who dares within the fellow's bog to enter! [graphic].

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Title: Ah me! what perils doth that youth encounter, who dares within the fellow's bog to enter! [graphic].
Alternative Title: Rake's-progress at the university ; no. 1
Rake's-progress at the university.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1806 October 22
Copyright Date: [22 October 1806]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "Two Fellows in cap and gown (l.), walking l. to r. under a stone arcade, see with shocked disapproval a dismayed undergraduate emerging from a door giving on to the arcade. He is slim and fashionably dressed. Another undergraduate (r.) with gold-embroidered gown, and the gold tassel denoting a peer, walking r. to left. along the arcade, watches the encounter with amused delight."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: First of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 31 x 45 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1806.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1806.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10639
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 545
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 343