pubd. according to act of Parliamt., March 28th, 1761.
Call Number:
Topos Ox98 no. 2++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, looking towards the rear, the seats around the sides, in the gallery and in the stalls, crowded with scholars and others listening to a debate between two academics facing each other in pulpits on either side, observed by the chancellor in a pulpit in the centre, with women among the spectators grouped in front of the benches in the foreground and showing part of Streater's paintings on the ceiling above."--British Museum online catalogue
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 3 January 1778]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 135. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on Cambridge. The interior of a large room showing two sash windows, through one of which (left) is seen part of the south side of the Senate House, through the other, the tower of St. Mary's Church, both drawn with topographical accuracy. Between the two windows is a niche in which is a statue of Athene holding her shield; in her outstretched left hand is held out a laurel wreath towards some men beneath her who have entered from a door on the right. Her owl sits beside her on the stump of a tree. ... Immediately below Athene, and concealing the lower part of her draperies a man stands on a high rostrum covered with a cloth. He wears a furred academic gown and bands, and holds out a rolled document in his right hand. Immediately below the rostrum a man, not in academic dress, is seated at a table writing. He is in profile to the right looking towards four men who have entered from the right through an open door, apparently 'professors of Arts and Sciences', whose names he is recording. The foremost of these is a dancing-master who stands holding a bow in his right hand, a kit or small fiddle in his left. Next is a rough-looking elderly man wearing a round hat and long coat. The other two are middle-aged, one holding his hat and a cane and accompanied by a dog. On the left, and behind the chair of the man writing, are two other 'professors'; a fencing-master, wearing a fencing-jacket, stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right, his left arm raised, holding his foil horizontally. Behind him stands a thin man wearing a hat, one hand in his waistcoat pocket, the other thrust in his waistcoat."--British Museum catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Artist, printmaker, and date of publication from statements of responsibility on later state: T.O. invt. & delt. ; Js. Bretherton f. 3d Jany. 1778., Proof before letters. For a later state with lettering, see no. 5510 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 135 of: Bunbury album.
A promenade under trees, with college buildings forming a background. Ladies walk arm-in-arm with undergraduates; four dons walk alone. Four of the foreground figures are adapted from Dighton portraits of 1808. On the extreme left stands Dr. Kett ... Near him stands 'A Noble Student of Oxford' (Lord Nugent) ... and extending a hand to Dr. John Smith ... In the centre is Dr. Jackson (Dean of Christ Church d. 1819) ..."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14935 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Pave 278, vol. 1. Note change of plate, 2 figures in background are omitted.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819, Kett, Henry, 1761-1825, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
The many windowed buildings are on the right, the high curved and spiked wall on the left. A lawyer, who invoked proceedings for gaming offences against former cronies, is being tossed high from a vast blanket, having been lured into the prison. A group of men with racquets is on the left. College=prison. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 14952 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 1, page 410.
