Bacon faced fellows of brazen nose, broke loose
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- Title:
- Bacon faced fellows of brazen nose, broke loose
- Description:
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The Fellows of Brasenose are drawn, with unusual unction, issuing from their Hall and through the archways of the Colleges, dressed in their academic guise, and pouring forth like a sable stream of erudition. The various expressions and attitudes of the 'big-wigs' are vastly well hit off; their diversified peculiarities of face or motion are full of comicality. These grave sons of the Church are not free from gallant considerations a buxom wench, with a basket of fruit slung round her shapely neck, is the centre of attraction ; the 'Bacon-faced Fellows' are crowded around, bargaining for her ware and leering at the seller with undisguised and clumsy admiration. A reflection is cast on the Vice- Chancellor, who is vainly endeavouring to steal into his apartments without being detected by the rest of the sly grinning Fellows, with a weighty folio under his arm, and followed by an engaging young fruiteress, a lump of rustic innocence, bearing her baskets, for better selection from the contents, to the seclusion of the Vice's study.
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Name on Item:
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Rowlandson Del.
- Date:
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March 1811
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Caricatures
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Students
Teachers
Crowds
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 25 x 37 cm
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- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pc26m
- Terms of Use:
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