A College Scene, or a Fruitless Attempt on the Purse of Old Square-toes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A College Scene, or a Fruitless Attempt on the Purse of Old Square-toes

Thomas Rowlandson|John Raphael Smith|Edward Williams the Elder

Date
August 1, 1787
Medium
Hand-colored etching with stipple and softground
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 in. × 14 11/16 in. (35.5 × 37.3 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.1636
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster|British, active London, ca. 1786

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Dogs

The Met object ID 789816. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.