Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate

Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate

Item Information

Title:
Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate
Description:
"Pot fair Cambridge": pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at right is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table. "The college gate": Three men ride off in different directions after coming through a gate with square brick pillars surmounted by stone vases. Behind the left rider walks a fat divine wearing an academic cap. Through the gateway we are shown a short fat man in a clerical wig standing on a mounting block as a groom approaches with his horse.
Etcher:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Artist:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811
Name on Item:
H. Bunbury delin, Rowlandson scul.
Date:
[1780–1790]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Clergy
Dogs
Pottery
Accidents
Horses
Horseback riding
Places:
England > Cambridgeshire (county) > Cambridge
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 36 x 26 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57pc60x
Terms of Use:
No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by the cataloger from a similar item at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 59.533.1861.
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
18_03_000236-37
Barcode:
36666003331556