The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]

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Title: The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
Creator: Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [10 June 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Strand, June 10th, 1772, accor. to act
Abstract: "Satire: a youth is being examined by a Cambridge don while his father looks on and an old servant and student laugh."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the design
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin.
A different, probably earlier, version of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Bust of Cicero, Marcus Tullius, B.C. 106-43 -- Literature: Ovid, B.C. 43-A.D. 18 -- College room at Cambridge -- Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures.
On leaf 19.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.6 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 39 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 19. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Universities & colleges
Teachers
Students
Servants
Books
Furniture
Sculpture
Globes
Subjects: Interiors
Universities & colleges
Teachers
Students
Servants
Books
Furniture
Sculpture
Globes
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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