An illustrated and engraved song: Caleb Quotem, the Parish Clerk, stands as if addressing the audience; he wears neat, old-fashioned dress, with flowered waistcoat. The scene is a village schoolroom, a day school. A little boy sits on a stool; a little boy and girl sit together on a form. The room is bare, with a table and a high shelf on which is a saucepan. A church can be seen through a window
Description:
Title from caption etched below image, above three columns of verse., One line of text above design: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, in the popular farce of the review, or the Wags of Windsor., Plate is numbered '420' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Three columns of verse below title: I'm parish clerk and sexton here, my name is Caleb Quotem ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Classrooms, Ecucation, School children, and Teachers
"An undergraduate leans from a bow window holding a rope attached to a basket containing a gaily dressed courtesan. In its descent it has knocked down the Proctor, who sits on the pavement, the woman falling on top of him. A 'bull-dog' with a constable's staff flashes a lantern on the window and on the woman; another stands just behind. An undergraduate watches from roudnd the corner of the building (right); a well-dressed couple hurry down the side street, looking back with interest."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Oxford bull-dogs detecting brazen smugglers
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Christian teachers. Mallam Twanul, Mallam Mayari (sp?) (not quite Christian)" Two men in white robes and hats pose for the camera at the Shendam Mission
On a bridge with Oxford in the background, male students riding bicyles with female companions collide, toppling another student and a master who drops a book opened to a page with the title "Tutors assistant".
Alternative Title:
Brazen Nose Hobbies
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Title etched in open letters below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of first letters in title. Missing letters supplied in contemporary hand., Dated from the ms. note on impression at The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted on verso of a partially trimmed map: Operations of the siege of the citadel of Antwerp showing the 1st and 2nd parallels and the commencement of the works of the 3rd. London : Published by M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832., and Mounted to 22 x 28 cm.
"The doctor, mounted on Grizzle, is beside a four-direction signpost on an open heath with a group of asses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later version of the design
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax losing his way
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Combe, W. The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque. London: R. Ackermann's Respository of Arts, 1812., "Plate 2"--Upper right corner., For an early version of the design, published in 1809 in Ackermann's The Poetical magazine, see no. 11508 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 176. For a later version of the design, published in 1813, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1866,1114.848., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor Syntax.
Publisher:
Published 1 May 1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Teachers, Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Donkeys
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 November 1814]
Call Number:
Print01366
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and From: [William Combe], The History of the University of Cambridge... London: R. Ackermann, 1815.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr 1. 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 September 1814]
Call Number:
Print01367
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and From: [William Combe], The History of the University of Cambridge... London: R. Ackermann, 1815.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1.1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Cambridge
Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 June 1813]
Call Number:
Print01368
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and From: [William Combe], The History of the University of Oxford... London: R. Ackermann, 1814.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1st 1813, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford
