Satire on oxford university life; in a circular academic building a fellow is publicly expelled for having published a satire against women, 'those gaudy things which flutter about oxford in prodigious numbers, in summer time, called toasts'; his gown and wig are torn off by a group of fellows and two women; at right a stout college official holds two torn pieces of paper lettered 'ter[rae]' and 'fili[us]'; frontispiece to nicholas amhurst, 'terrae-filius: or, the secret history of the university of oxford; in several essays' (london, 1726), vol. 1. Engraving. Date: 1726. Dimensions: Height: 141 mm (cropped); Width: 83 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Nicholas Amhurst. Collection: British Museum. Print, frontispiece, satirical print (BM Cc,1.66)
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