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Academic costume

Images

  • King's College, London: the interior of the theatre on prizegiving day. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.
  • A physician, a burgess (the physician's patient), and the dean of a university, in their respective costumes, 13--. Coloured wood engraving by Cupré after F.P.
  • Two actors performing on an open-air stage, perhaps selling medicines (?); St. Pauls cathedral is visible in the background. Engraving by J. van der Gucht.
  • An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers. Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Academical dress of British universities / by G.W. Shaw.

    Shaw, G. W. (George Wenham) | Date: [1966]
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    A doctor of physic in his ceremonial congregation robes at Oxford. Coloured engraving by J. Agar, 1813, after T. Uwins.

    Uwins, Thomas, 1782-1857. | Date: 1 December 1813 | Reference: 21537i
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    King's College, London: the interior of the theatre on prizegiving day. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.

    Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer) | Date: 1841 | Reference: 24362i
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    An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.

    | Reference: 17896i
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    A doctor of law and medicine in traditional costume, Lombardy. Pencil drawing by the librarian of the University of Padua 1915.

    | Date: 1915 | Reference: 21544i
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