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WD3717
- Record Id:
- 032-003268164
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268164
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001205
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3717
- Title:
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Caricature entitled: 'Punjab University affairs, 1885'. A farmer wearing a mortar board and gown drives a plough yoked to a bullock and a rearing unicorn bearing a list of rules on its horn, Lahore in the distance
- Scope & Content:
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Caricature entitled: ‘Punjab University affairs, 1885’. A farmer wearing a mortar board and gown drives a plough yoked to a bullock and a rearing unicorn bearing a list of rules on its horn, Lahore in the distance.
Inscribed: ‘Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valley after thee? Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home the seed and gather it into thy barn?’
Sepia ink and wash; 17.8 by 25.5 cm.
Presented by Mrs. N.B. Dunlop and Miss J. Dunlop Smith, 1973.
Note: The Punjab University College at Lahore was raised to the status of a university in 1882. By 1885 there was grave disquiet concerning the financial position of the University and a committee was appointed to examine its affairs in April 1885. A report issued the following year revealed grave errors of accounting. Sir Charles Aitchison, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab and Chancellor of the University from 1882-7 announced that the University had made a ‘false start’. The caricature refers to the troubles of this period.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268164
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268164
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1885
- End Date:
- 1885
- Date Range:
- 1885
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: ink, sepia; wash
- Finding Aids:
- Patricia Kattenhorn, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume III, 24
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- caricatures