[Scholars at a lecture] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Scholars at a lecture] [graphic].
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created: March 3d 1736.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by WHogarth
Abstract: A group of scholars at Oxford stare with vacant expressions at a lecturer holding an open book with title "Datum Vacuum". He is identified by Paulson as William Fisher. All are wearing square trencher caps. See Paulson
Description: Title from Paulson.
Hogarth's initials form a monogram.
Variant of Paulson's state 2; imprint for state 2 in Paulson: "Published by W. Hogarth, March 3d 1736."
Lower right, below image: Price six pence.
Provenance: Ld. B' album; October 1957; Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 220 x 187 mm, on sheet 238 x 208 mm
Edition: [State 2a].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Hogarth 736.03.03.02 Box 105
Collection Title: Plate 63. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 48. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Collection / Other Creator: Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1732-1764] [England], [not after 1753]

Genre: Puns (Visual works) England 1736
Satires (Visual works) England 1736
Engravings England London 1736
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fisher, William, -1761.
Subject (Topic): Students
Scholars
Teaching
Subjects: Fisher, William, -1761
Students
Scholars
Teaching
England > 1736
England > London > 1736
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > Ownership

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