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Antique Print , Scholars at a lecture by W.Hogarth
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This Hogarth Print was in an antique book with Hogarth prints.
Some light discolouration. The picture only measures 18cm / 20cm.
Published 1736
A commentary on the institutions of universities and of `higher learning'. Here a professor (thought to be William Fisher, Registrar of Oxford) is delivering one of his lectures entitled `Datur Vacuum'. Surrounding him are his students who exhibit a myriad of responses to the lecture. Indifference, boredom, scorn, amazement, skepticism, incredulity and drowiness are all portrayed. Every reaction is there except genuine interest.A commentary on the institutions of universities and of `higher learning'. Here a professor (thought to be William Fisher, Registrar of Oxford) is delivering one of his lectures entitled `Datur Vacuum'. Surrounding him are his students who exhibit a myriad of responses to the lecture. Indifference, boredom, scorn, amazement, skepticism, incredulity and drowiness are all portrayed. Every reaction is there except genuine interest.
In 1737 Hogarth bunched together `A chorus of singer' and `The Laughing audience' with `Scholars' and `The Company of Undertakers', selling them as `Four etchings of different characters of heads in groups'.