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.
"Three revellers are lighted home by a watchman who walks beside them holding his lantern and looking sideways at them with quizzical contempt. A tall fashionably dressed and dishevelled man walks between two young women, also fashionably dressed; one holding a large muff takes his right arm; the other wears his bell-shaped top-hat, while he wears, back to front, her large feathered bonnet. They are lit from a street lamp, part of the post of which is on the extreme left in the foreground, while dawn lightens the dark sky. A large shuttered window in a corner house forms a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker, artist, place, date, and name of publisher from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 32 x 24 cm.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Text following statement of responsibility: Lord love you this may be seen every Sunday in Glasgow., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"A similar scene to BM Satires 14721, with awkward, exhibitionist, and dandified riders in place of carriages; one pedestrian, a lady, is in the foreground (right). Legs are thrust forward, toes turned out, down, or up. A man gallops holding one rein and an eye-glass with studied negligence, his left hand in his trouser pocket. Beside him is a lady, turning in her saddle to look through an eye-glass; a long green veil streams from her bell-shaped top-hat. A horse falls on its head, the falling man is taking snuff. Two dogs fight in the foreground. There are heavy clouds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Place of sculls Tom Echo receiving sentance of rustication, Golgotha, or, the place of skulls Tom Echo receiving sentence of rustication, and Golgotha, or, the place of sculls Tom Echo receiving sentance of rustication
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Academics -- Students -- Punishment -- Universities.
Title from text above images., Seven individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 10, 1824 by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Hangings (Executions), Ice skating, and Vomiting
Title from caption above image., Six individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from text above images., Six individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 10, 1824 by Thos. McLean 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Carriages & coaches, Couples, Fighting, and Teachers
Title from text above images., Seven individual images on one plate; each image has individual title., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.