[Town & gown, or, The battle of the togati & the town raff in the High Street Oxford] [graphic] / Robt. Cruckshank fecit.

Creator:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.

Edition:

[Proof before aquatint and lettering].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Sherwood, Jones, & Co.],
[1824]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 15.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 16.1 x 26 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr34243

Notes:

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.

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.

Variant Titles:

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
Town and gown

Topics:

Butchers.
Crowds.
Fights.
Occupations.
Stagecoaches.
Students.
Tailors.

Topics:

Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.
University of Oxford--Students--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1824.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1824.
Trial proofs.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

75
C9
824
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 4

Orbis Record:

12873411

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr34243

OID:

15959177

PID:

digcoll:2795774