[Frontispiece to Terrae-Filius] [graphic] / W. Hogarth invt. ; I. Mills sculp.

Creator:
Mills, Isaac, active 1795-1834, printmaker.
Edition:
[State 1].
Published/Created:
[London] :
[publisher not identified],
[not after 1834?]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 14.2 x 8.6 cm
Notes:
Title from Paulson.
Original designed as the Frontispiece to vol. 1 of Nicholas Amhurst's Terra-Filius, or The secret history of the University's of Oxford. London : R. Francklin, 1726.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, 1727.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 101.
Abstract:
In an auditorium with seats around the perimeter, a stout college dignitary holding out a piece of paper stands on the right observing a scuffle between students on the left. The only word left on the torn piece of paper is "terrae".
Topics:
Fighting.
Lecture halls.
Topics:
Amhurst, N.--(Nicholas),--1697-1742.--Terra-Filius--Illustrations.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Language:
English
Genre:
Book illustrations.
Etchings--England--London--1834.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1834.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
75
H67
800 v.1
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Orbis Record:
12699449
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr26101e
OID:
16193868
PID:
digcoll:4048354