Scholars at a lecture; oxford scholars, portrayed as an assemblage of heads wearing square-topped, round cloth and felt hats and expressing varieties of boredom, listening to a reader in a lectern at lower right, his book inscribed in ink, with various squiggles, 'datur vacuum'. January 1736/7
etching and engraving. Date: between 1736 and 1737. Dimensions: Height: 220 mm; Width: 185 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Henry Fisher. Collection: British Museum. Print, satirical print (BM 1868,0822.1545)
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