The master's wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his dog within the college walls [graphic].

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Title: The master's wig the guilty wight appals, who brings his dog within the college walls [graphic].
Alternative Title: Rake's progress at the university ; no. 3
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: "The undergraduate (r.) finds himself face to face with the Master who is walking with a Fellow across the College quadrangle. He stops, putting his hand to his cap, while his dog tries to take cover behind his legs and gown. A college servant behind him (r.) raises a broom to smite the intruding dog. The background is part of the side of the Chapel or Hall, llh the rooms at r. angles to it."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Third of five prints in a series entitled: The rake's progress at the university.
Title from text within curly brackets below image, following series title.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.4 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.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10641
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 547
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 343