- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.05.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a courtyard of Christ Church (Oxford), undergraduates in cap and gown dance around a bonfire, fueled by doors, chairs, and tables carried from the surrounding buildings. Other students pull at ropes to drag a statute of Mercury towards the flames. From the windows on either side of the gateway students throw objects including a globe and a chamber pot, while another blows a trumpet. Groups of students dance wildly as they drink and riot
- Alternative Title:
- Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published May 1, 1824 by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Eating & drinking, Fire, Intoxication, Riots, Students, British, and Universities & colleges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Flooring of Mercury, or, Burning the oaks, a scene in Tom Quadrangle [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 1, 1826.
- Call Number:
- 825.11.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander, and are making for the Point
- Alternative Title:
- Coxswain's carousal
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Year of publication altered. Ms. '6' added over last digit of 1825.
- Publisher:
- Published by Sherwood & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Celebrations, Crowds, Couples, Flags, Intoxication, Painted wall signs, Parades & processions, Sailors, British, and Stores & shops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1825]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C9 824 no. 16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of wartime merriment: A procession of sailors and their women, escorted by fiddlers, passes a background of shops towards a gateway across the end of the street (left). The purveyor of the jollification, a sailor who has inherited money, sits astride a cask of 'real Jamaica' supported on poles carried by sailors, who wave hat and tankard towards the crowded first-floor windows. Men and women dance along the street. There are many incidents. A Jew, talking to another Jew outside a shop placarded 'Moses Slop-Shop', has his hat twitched off by the cane of a sailor who leans from above the doorway. The sailors carry an Ensign flag and a flag inscribed 'Leander', and are making for the Point. See British Museum catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Coxswain's carousal
- Description:
- Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15212 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Ms. note in pencil on front: Vol. 2, Page 218.
- Publisher:
- Sherwood & Co.
- Subject (Topic):
- Jews, Celebrations, Crowds, Couples, Flags, Intoxication, Painted wall signs, Parades & processions, Sailors, British, and Stores & shops
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Point Street, Portsmouth, or, The coxswain's carousal] [graphic].