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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

Edward Williams the Elder|S. W. Fores|Thomas Rowlandson

Date
[August 1, 1787], reissued July 1, 1802
Medium
Etching with stipple and softground, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 14 7/16 in. (36.8 × 36.6 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.849
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

British, active London, ca. 1786|London|British, London 1757–1827 London

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • Dogs

The Met object ID 810816. 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.