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1. The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1799]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 799.05.23.04+
- 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 counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Reissue, with altered imprint statement, of a print originally published 3 Jan. 1774 by J. Bretherton. Cf. no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Watermark: I. Taylor.
- Publisher:
- Printed and publish'd as the act directs, May 23 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Students
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
2. The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
- Creator:
- 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 counting on his fingers while his eager father, wearing countryman's boots, urges him on; on the left a woman, probably the tutor's housekeeper, holds two volumes, one lettered "Longinus", and on the right an elegant undergraduate stands smiling; on the wall behind are portraits of "Dr Allcock" and "Mrs Allcock", a Roman bust with turned down mouth on the lintel above the door, and a frame with the plan and elevation of a building."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Printed and publish'd as the act directs, 3d Jany. 1774, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators, Students, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic]
3. A view taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1807]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 43. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The tall Dean of Christ Church [Cyril Jackson] and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in academic dress, walk, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator, heads in profile. Webber expounds with extended hand, the Dean listens with grave intensity. The Dean wears a clerical wig, a cassock with sash, and high-quartered buckled shoes. The younger and smaller man has short hair, double-breasted coat, fashionable jabot, and knee-breeches, with tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 43 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 29.7 x 19.8 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figures identified as "Mr. Webber" and "Dr. Jackson, Dean, Christ Church" in pencil at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819 and Webber, James, 1772-1847
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Students
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford [graphic]
4. A view taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.05.00.03
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 43. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The tall Dean of Christ Church [Cyril Jackson] and James Webber (B.D. 1807), both in academic dress, walk, right to left, and slightly towards the spectator, heads in profile. Webber expounds with extended hand, the Dean listens with grave intensity. The Dean wears a clerical wig, a cassock with sash, and high-quartered buckled shoes. The younger and smaller man has short hair, double-breasted coat, fashionable jabot, and knee-breeches, with tied shoes."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819 and Webber, James, 1772-1847
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Students
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken from Christ Church Meadows Oxford [graphic]
5. A view taken at Oxford [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1808]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 47. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. John Smith, portly and very round-shouldered, stands in profile to the right, wearing mortar-board, gown, and cassock, with bands. An eye-glass hangs from a ribbon. Smith (1744-1809), B.D. and D.D. 1796, was Rector of Fairford, Glos., 1768-1809, and Master of Pembroke College 1796-1809."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 47 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.3 x 20.5 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Smith, John, 1744-1809
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken at Oxford [graphic]
6. A view taken at Oxford [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1808]
- Call Number:
- 808.01.00.03
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 47. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. John Smith, portly and very round-shouldered, stands in profile to the right, wearing mortar-board, gown, and cassock, with bands. An eye-glass hangs from a ribbon. Smith (1744-1809), B.D. and D.D. 1796, was Rector of Fairford, Glos., 1768-1809, and Master of Pembroke College 1796-1809."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Smith, John, 1744-1809
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view taken at Oxford [graphic]
7. A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 January 1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 52. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Mansel, Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity (from 1798), walks from left to right, and slightly towards the spectator, head in profile, and thrown back, his mortar-board in his left hand. His voluminous, inflated, and much convoluted gown covers a bulky figure. He wears a clerical wig."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker tentatively identified as Dighton in the British Museum online catalogue., Leaf 52 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., Watermark, trimmed: [Ed]meads 1808., and Figure identified as "Bishop of Bristol" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 10th, 1810, by Dighton, 6 Charg. Cross
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Mansel, William Lort, 1753-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Bishops, Clergy, College administrators, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Trinity College, Cambridge [graphic].
8. A view from St Iohn's College Cambridge [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1809]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 51. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Wood walks meditatively in profile to the left, holding his gown to his waist. He has short white hair or wig, a white eyebrow, wears a mortar-board, bands over a shirt-frill, and knee-breeches, showing a neat leg."--British Museum online catalogue and "James Wood (1760-1839), Fellow of St. John's and mathematician, was the son of a Lancashire weaver. He was B.D. 1793, D.D. 1815, Master of his College 1815-39, and Dean of Ely from 1820. He was the most influential man in the University, and according to the 'D.N.B.' the model head of a college ..."--British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- View from St John's College Cambridge
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Leaf 51 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and Figure identified as "Mr. Wood" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Robert Dighton
- Subject (Name):
- Wood, James, 1760-1839
- Subject (Topic):
- College administrators and Mathematicians
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from St Iohn's College Cambridge [graphic]
9. A view from Oriel College, Oxford [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1808]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 75 D569 812
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 49. Characatures by Dighton.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dr. Eveleigh stands in profile to the right, holding to his person his voluminous gown. He wears a clerical wig, mortar-board, and cassock. He is tall and dignified with sharply cut, alert, sensitive features."--British Museum online catalogue and "Eveleigh, Provost of Oriel 1781-1814, was Bampton Lecturer in 1792. He did much to raise the college to its high position in the early nineteenth century, and was a vigorous university reformer."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Leaf 49 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.8 x 20.0 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Dr. Eveligh" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1808 by Dighton, Charg. Cross
- Subject (Name):
- Eveleigh, John, 1748-1814
- Subject (Topic):
- Teachers and College administrators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view from Oriel College, Oxford [graphic].