Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker / Subject (Topic): Occupations

You Searched For

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: Augt. 2, 1824.
Call Number:: 824.08.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 inside and out, is wedged in the crowd, the outside passengers are assailed by a man in a gown. A woman empties a pot from an upper window; a lantern, hats, &c., fly through the air."--British Museum catalogue
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. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):: University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):: Students, Butchers, Crowds, Fights, Occupations, Stagecoaches, and Tailors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Town & gown, or, The battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford [graphic]

Creator:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1824]
Call Number:: Folio 75 C9 824 no. 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 inside and out, is wedged in the crowd, the outside passengers are assailed by a man in a gown. A woman empties a pot from an upper window; a lantern, hats, &c., fly through the air."--British Museum catalogue
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 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. 14936 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: Page 280, vol. 1.
Publisher:: Sherwood, Jones, & Co.
Subject (Name):: University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):: Students, Butchers, Crowds, Fights, Occupations, Stagecoaches, and Tailors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Town & gown, or, The battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford] [graphic]