Description: This would make for a great gift for high school student or family of a student who is applying or just got admitted to college.The Original piece (I'm not sure when this one was made) concerns the subject of a high school (English Public School) student getting admitted to Cambridge University in 1772. This makes the family proud of their son. (See last picture for what the orginal etching looks like made by Anthony Pasquin. This example is in the Yale Lewis Walpole Library in New Haven, CT. Framed this is about 15 X 18 inches, the print itself is about 10 X 14 Inches. Description Title The hopes of the family an admission at the university / [graphic] Creator Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818, printmaker Contributor Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist. Darly, M. publisher. Published / Created [10 June 1772] Publication Place London Publisher Pub. by MDarly, Strand, June 10th, 1772, accor. to act Abstract "Satire: a youth is being examined by a Cambridge don while his father looks on and an old servant and student laugh."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the design Description Title etched below image. Printmaker John Williams later adopted the pseudonym Anthony Pasquin. Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge leaving thread margin. A different, probably earlier, version of no. 4727 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. Temporary local subject terms: Bust of Cicero, Marcus Tullius, B.C. 106-43 -- Literature: Ovid, B.C. 43-A.D. 18 -- College room at Cambridge -- Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures. Watermark. Provenance Suckling; June 1956; Extent 1 print : sheet 26 x 39 cm Language English Collection Information Repository Lewis Walpole Library Call Number Bunbury 772.06.10.01.1+ Collection Title Leaf 19. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Collection Date [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776. Subjects, Formats, And Genres Genre Satires (Visual works) England 1772Etchings England London 1772Watermarks (Paper) Material etching ; and laid paper. Resource Type Still Image
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Artist: Matthew Darly Strand
Type: Print
Production Technique: Lithography
Framing: Framed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Satirical Art from 1772
