EditorialStudent attempting to smuggle a woman in a basket into his rooms at college. Capping a Proctor, or Oxford Bulldogs detecting Brazen Smugglers. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written ...
EditorialSmuggling a woman into an Oxford college. The English Spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn ...
EditorialCavalry carbine. 1865. Breech-loading, rifled, .450in calibre. War Department production piece marked 'Enfield 1865' on the lock, possibly bought as a specimen by the Secretary of State for India (although not marked as such). Westley Richards' carbine...
EditorialCaptain Swayne. The Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum for neglecte. Dublin, 1807-15. Captain Richard Longford Swayne, commander of the militia, pitch capping the people of Prosperous. Image taken from The Irish Magazine and Monthly Asylum for neglecte...
EditorialPrince’s carbine. Prince’s carbine. England, 1850's. Breech-loading, rifled, calibre approx. .56in. Civilian production piece, possibly bought as a specimen by the Secretary of State for India (although not marked as such). Prince’s carbine was o...
EditorialStudent attempting to smuggle a woman in a basket into his rooms at college. Capping a Proctor, or Oxford Bulldogs detecting Brazen Smugglers. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written ...
EditorialBachelor's Hall: Capping on Hounds Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "Painted by | F.C. Turner. 1836", Francis Calcraft Turner, active 1782-1846, British.
EditorialFoxhunting: Encouraging Hounds Capping Hounds and Full Cry Signed and dated, lower right: "J. F. Herring | 1839", John Frederick Herring, 1795-1865, British.
EditorialMR. DISRAELI'S VISIT TO GLASGOW: 1. The Crowd outside the Kibble Palace. 2. Embryo Divines amusing themselves. 3. Cheering the Lord Rector. 4. Capping the Lord Rector. 5. Mr. Disraeli at the Desk. 6. Some of his listeners, 1873 engraving.