print;
frontispiece;
satirical print
- Museum number
- Cc,1.99
- Description
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Frontispiece to James Miller, 'The Humours of Oxford', 2nd edition (London, 1730); scene in a tavern; at centre Haughty, a Fellow of one of the Oxford colleges, sits drunkenly disputing with the Vice-Chancellor, who stands at right; on the other side of the table at left, standing, are Conundrum (another Fellow), also drinking, and a servant, behind Conundrum on the wall, a framed 'Oxford Alm[anac]'; in the doorway, holding a truncheon, the Vice-Chancellor's attendant.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1730
- Dimensions
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Height: 171 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 105 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Miller's play was first put on at Drury Lane, January 9, 1729/30, running for seven performances. The first edition of the text was published on 12 January, and the second edition announced in the London Evening Post (11-14 April) for April 15, 'With a Curious Frontispiece taken from the Tavern Scene in the 4th Act, Representing the Vice-Chancellor, Haughty, Conundrum, &c. (Design'd from the Life by Mr. Hogarth, and Ingrav'd by Mr. Gerard Vandergucht)...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Humours of Oxford
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Cc,1.99
