Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.

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Hallifax, Samuel, 1733-1790.

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Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.