Convened for wearing gaiters, sad offence! Expelled, nor e'en permitted a defence [graphic].

[London] : Publish'd October 22d, 1806, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London, [22 October 1806]

1 print : etching with aquatint ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 31 x 45 cm

wove paper

From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.

"The undergraduate, cap in hand, stands with bent head facing a table at the opposite end of which stands the Master, obese, drink-blotched, and angry, delivering sentence. Six Fellows stand at the table, three a side, all glaring at the culprit, and much caricatured. A gaiter lies on the table. At the door, and immediately behind the undergraduate, stands a college servant, his hand on the door-handle, holding a long wand (like that held by the butler of Trinity College, Cambridge, in BMSat 7017). The room is bare with a panelled wall, the only furniture the table and a carved armchair behind the Master."--British Museum online catalogue.

Rake's progress at the university. No. 5

English

February 02, 2009

Rake's progress at the university ; no. 5