1592997266000 1536161172000 Standard Record object-225466 1747159747951 1569945549000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-225466 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225466 d27d4d5c-ca64-384c-b843-64152a3de14a 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints Etching on laid paper. Satirical print. A scene in a picture gallery contained within an etched border. A man in academic gown and bands and wearing a wig stands in a pose adopted from the Venus de Medici. A boy to his left holds out a dead cat which he has apparently just taken from a basket containing arrows on the floor in front of him. A halberd leans against the wall at centre right, a small bonnet speared upon its spike (the spoils of a Cambridge Proctor). On the wall are three framed pictures with titles beneath, from left to right: 'The Gentleman / and Scholar / United', 'Dead Game', a still life of two books, the Bible and 'University Statutes', from which projects a pair of clerical bands inscribed "6s 8d". An open pamphlet with the books is inscribed: 'A Sermon preached at Wisbech assizes before'. Three prints pinned beneath each picture can all be identified as satires published by Sarah Sledge, from left to right: 'The Bear, the Louse and Religion a Fable', 'Venus turn'd Proctor' and 'The Justice in the Suds'. Etched on the plate in the lower margin, a poem in three verses begins at lower left and continues at lower right: 'O Venus Beauty of the Skies, / To whom a thousand Temples rise, / Gayly false in gentle Smiles,- / In Mathematicks he was greater / Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater: / For he, by Geometrick Scale, / Cou'd take the Size of Pots of Ale; / Resolve by Sines & Tangents, straight; / If Bread or Butter wanted weight; / He knew What's What, & that's as high / As Metaphysick Wit can fly; / All lov'd him well, who knew his Fame, / And sent him Cats, instead of Game.'. At the centre of the lower margin, the title is etched within a double-edged border above and below: 'Venus turn'd P--ct-r'. The price is etched at lower left: 'Price 1s = 6d'. The publisher's details are etched at lower right: 'London publish'd by Mrs Sledge Henrietta Street / Covent Garden'. More information about the context of the satire can be found with the impression held at the British Museum: 1868,0808.4490. P.14857-R 1 accession number P.14857-R 225466 priref 225466 Stephens/George 5189 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225466 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/225466 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 1773 1773 circa 1773 printmaker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown publisher reference agent-198023 adlib-agent-198023 60f0e41c-b262-3d36-82e4-79740289cf56 Sledge, Sarah height 175mm (plate) x width 196mm (plate) reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference media-218271 adlib-media-218271 ec15ec1f-cac6-38a1-a5e4-08cda5fa8b5f jpeg pdp/pdp82/large_P_14857_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 890 width pixels 1024 1616284274763 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp82/mid_P_14857_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 435 width pixels 500 1616284274763 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp82/P_14857_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 891 width pixels 1025 1616284274763 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp82/preview_P_14857_R_1_amt49_201908_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 217 width pixels 250 1616284274763 1 image 0 media image 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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