1592997266000 1536161170000 Standard Record object-225461 1747159748441 1546876108000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225461 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225461 64a71a27-8f4b-3301-a4c6-0fd2ae2fd4cd 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints Etching on laid paper. Satirical print. A portrait of Dr. W. Scott of Trinity College, Cambridge, later Rector of Simonburn, Northumberland. Within an etched border. A male figure, full-length, stands in a landscape, in three-quarter profile to the right. He holds a manuscript titled 'The Perils / of / Poetry'. The stocking on his left leg is falling down and his slippers are untied. A tankard is on the ground in the left foreground and a barrel labelled 'Trin. Coll' empties out into a stream on the right. An owl sits on the barrel and a flying donkey above. Etched at lower left within the border: 'Drink deep, or taste not the Portereal Spring'. Etched on the plate at lower centre outside the border: 'A Parson in Politics is like a Monkey in a Toyshop - / He may do much Mischief, but cannot possibly do / any Good. / Witness (being first duly STAMPT)'. A handwritten inscription in graphite on the verso is transcribed in pen and ink on the artist's board onto which the print is laid down: 'REV. SCOTT, RECTOR OF SIMONBOURNE, NORTHUMBERLAND. A LIVING GIVEN TO HIM BY THE EARL OF SANDWICH WHEN FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY AS A REWARD FOR WRITING IN HIS FAVOUR UNDER THE TITLE OF ANTISEJANUS.'. An impression which has been trimmed to the image border is in the collection of the British Museum: 1868,0808.4396. P.14852-R 1 accession number P.14852-R 225461 priref 225461 Stephens/George 4127 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225461 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225461 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum unknown reference agent-161926 adlib-agent-161926 86919954-05dc-38f8-8246-d58fdb3b58cb unknown 1765 1765 circa 1765 printmaker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown height 355mm (cut to platemark) x width 247mm (cut to platemark) reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference term-135555 adlib-term-135555 0e6c1c63-550d-34c9-ac66-cd1c2831ef9b satirical print reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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