[The hopes of the family] [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[ca. 1803?]eng"A copy by Rowlandson after the 1774 Bunbury print, 'The hopes of the family - an admission at the university', a 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 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 further volumes, and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and a woman, 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 supplied by cataloger, based on that of the earlier print from which this design was copied.Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2006,U.1348.A reduced copy of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.Similar to and perhaps related to a series of small copies by Rowlandson of earlier Bunbury satires, published in 1803 by R. Ackermann. See Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. ii, p. 42-43.On same sheet: Miseries of London.