"Scene in a school-room, pupils performing for admiring relations and friends. Eight little girls in party frocks do dance-steps while an agitated dancing-master leans angrily towards them, playing his fiddle. Other little girls watch from a bench (ri...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
In a courtyard of Christ Church (Oxford), undergraduates in cap and gown dance around a bonfire, fueled by doors, chairs, and tables carried from the surrounding buildings. Other students pull at ropes to drag a statute of Mercury towards the flames. ...
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, printmaker
Published / Created:
May 1st, 1790.
Call Number:
790.05.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A student (an Etonian) with a walking stick under his arm and hands in his pocket walks to the right. He is very thin, has long hair, and wears a large bow at his neck
Leaf 71. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait (caricature) of a stout man walking in profile to left. His left hand is outspread on his protruding waistcoat. He wears a tasselled mortar-board, a very long and voluminous gown which rests on the ground. Except for his hair, w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act, March 17th, 1772, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 71. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait (caricature) of a stout man walking in profile to left. His left hand is outspread on his protruding waistcoat. He wears a tasselled mortar-board, a very long and voluminous gown which rests on the ground. Except for his hair, w...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act, March 17th, 1772, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 105. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Full-length view of a caricature of a man (a dandy), standing and facing left, with his hands in his pockets; a hat with tassel covers his hair worn in an elaborate plait. He wears a long coat over a spotted vest and breeches, checked stockings, and l...
Alternative Title:
Academic macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):
College teachers, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Students, Hairstyles, and Mortarboards (Caps)
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[3 January 1774]
Call Number:
Bunbury 774.01.03.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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 mathematical volume resting beside a globe; the youth stands ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Printed and publish'd as the act directs, 3d Jany. 1774, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
