"An undergraduate leans from a bow window holding a rope attached to a basket containing a gaily dressed courtesan. In its descent it has knocked down the Proctor, who sits on the pavement, the woman falling on top of him. A 'bull-dog' with a constab...
"Blackmantle stands with a trunk marked 'B.B.' at his feet as he gazes at the inscription scrawled on the ceinling of a bare and dilapidated room. An old college scout bows obsequiously, holding out a long paper headed 'A list of necessaries'. A hideo...
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. ...
A promenade under trees, with college buildings forming a background. Ladies walk arm-in-arm with undergraduates; four dons walk alone. Four of the foreground figures are adapted from Dighton portraits of 1808. On the extreme left stands Dr. Kett .....
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Cyril, 1746-1819, Kett, Henry, 1761-1825, and Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850
The wide street, lit by a full moon, is filled by a wild fight between undergraduates and their supporters (for whom gowns had been obtained by looting a tailor's shop) and 'bargees, and the butchers, and labourers'. A stage-coach, Old Fly, crowded i...
Alternative Title:
Battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford, Battle of the togati and the town raff in the High Street Oxford, and Town and gown
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Students, Butchers, Crowds, Fights, Occupations, Stagecoaches, and Tailors
