[Frontispiece to "The humours of Oxford"] [graphic]

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Title: [Frontispiece to "The humours of Oxford"] [graphic]
Creator: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1730]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Watts
Abstract: In a room in an Oxford tavern, one of the fellows drunkenly holds up a glass of wine while addressing the Vice-Chancellor who rebukes him for his conduct. A man with a bludgeon resting on his shoulder stands in the doorway. On the wall, an almanck (Oxford alm[...]. A dog lies asleep on the floor
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue.
Plate from: The humours of Oxford. 2nd ed. London : J. Watts, 1730.
Mounted to sheet 255 x 190 mm with red ink ruled border and ms. title in red ink: Oxford in the days of Hogarth.
Provenance: From R.W. Ketton-Cremer.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 166 x 104 mm
Language: English

Genre: Stamp
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) England 1730
Etchings England London 1730
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): University of Oxford.
Subject (Topic): Dogs
Intoxication
Subjects: University of Oxford
Dogs
Intoxication
18th century
England > 1730
England > London > 1730
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Astley, Edward, Sir > Stamp

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