Pub by MDarly accor to Act May 27th. (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
Social satire, an Oxford student in affected nautical costume, rowing (or punting) a canoe on the River Isis. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '9' upper right.
BM Satires: 4705.
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