Outside a rustic building with a sign "Old Farmer [...]ck House", a farmer with a large belly, smoking a pipe, leans against a table loaded with bags with '500' written on them. Above the table on the fence is a sign "Quarter Day".
Description:
Title etched below image., Date from other prints in this series., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Mounted with 5 other prints in the series on blue album paper., "Daily paper"--Upper right corner., "Plate 1"--Upper left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J. Royle, 27, King Street, Holborn, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Landlord and tenants, Landlord & tenant relations, and Newspapers
A group of scholars at Oxford stare with vacant expressions at a lecturer holding an open book with title "Datum Vacuum" added by Hogarth in ink. He is identified by Paulson as William Fisher. All are wearing square trencher caps. See Paulson
Description:
Title from Paulson., Lower right corner below image: Price six pence., Variant of Paulson's state 2; imprint for state 2 in Paulson:: "Published by W. Hogarth, 3d 1736.", On page 85 in volume 1., Pencil ms. note in Steevens hand above print: First impression., and Hogarth annotated book in image with text "Datur vacuum ...".
