print;
frontispiece;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Cc,1.66
- Description
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Satire on Oxford University life; in a circular academic building a fellow is publicly expelled for having published a satire against women, 'those gaudy things which flutter about Oxford in prodigious numbers, in summer time, called Toasts'; his gown and wig are torn off by a group of fellows and two women; at right a stout college official holds two torn pieces of paper lettered 'Ter[rae]' and 'Fili[us]'; frontispiece to Nicholas Amhurst, 'Terrae-Filius: Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays' (London, 1726), vol. 1.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1726
- Dimensions
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Height: 141 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 83 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'Terrae-Filius' was an early periodical by Amhurst, who later edited the anti-Walpole periodical 'The Craftsman', and was brought out every Wednesday and Saturday from 11th January-6th July 1721. On 9th March 1722/3 Amhurst advertised that he would publish it by subscription, but Paulson states that it was only published in 1726, as the first announcement of publication was 15th June of that year. The incident portayed by Hogarth is described in no. 33, 8th May 1721 (Vol. 2, pp. 177-82). Paulson suggests the setting is the Sheldonian Theatre.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Terrae-Filius: Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.66
