Photograph of Scene suggested to the Artist by recent events in Cambridge [JJ version entitled 'Female exams'] [3 male dons at the end of a table listening intently to seated female student reading; other women in background. Note: Newnham College founded in 1880 and the Senate of Graces, granting titles of degrees (not yet the degree itself) and the right of sitting for university examinations and being placed on the lists, 24 February 1881] [John Johnson 759] by R.P.P.; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ., 1881