Photograph of Alarming Reappearance of the Chimney Epidemic at Merton College (as seen from the Broad Walk)] George Charles Brodrick and Edmund Arbuthnott Knox aloft on opposing chimneys, brandishing chimney brushes; Thomas Bowman clinging onto chimney in distance; William Esson sitting on roof; George Rodney Scott by right- hand chimney, reciting aloud; with 'shades' of Bishop Walter de Merton and Roger de St. Alban re 'University improvements' - 'The work has been entrusted to Messers Symm & Co...'; orig at. MS. Top. Oxon. a. 33, fol. 4 - see xford & Cambridge Undergraduates' JournalO, 18 October 1883, p. 14 ] [John Johnson 970] [by Walter Alison Philips of Merton College]; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
G.A.Oxon. 4o 417, fol. 1002
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Photograph of Alarming Reappearance of the Chimney Epidemic at Merton College (as seen from the Broad Walk)] George Charles Brodrick and Edmund Arbuthnott Knox aloft on opposing chimneys, brandishing chimney brushes; Thomas Bowman clinging onto chimney in distance; William Esson sitting on roof; George Rodney Scott by right- hand chimney, reciting aloud; with 'shades' of Bishop Walter de Merton and Roger de St. Alban re 'University improvements' - 'The work has been entrusted to Messers Symm & Co...'; orig at. MS. Top. Oxon. a. 33, fol. 4 - see xford & Cambridge Undergraduates' JournalO, 18 October 1883, p. 14 ] [John Johnson 970] [by Walter Alison Philips of Merton College]; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
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G.A.Oxon. 4o 417, fol. 1002
Date
Oct. 1883
Language
English
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1 item
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Collection contents
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures
Shrimpton caricatures Volume 6
Photograph of Alarming Reappearance of the Chimney Epidemic at Merton College (as seen from the Broad Walk)] George Charles Brodrick and Edmund Arbuthnott Knox aloft on opposing chimneys, brandishing chimney brushes; Thomas Bowman clinging onto chimney in distance; William Esson sitting on roof; George Rodney Scott by right- hand chimney, reciting aloud; with 'shades' of Bishop Walter de Merton and Roger de St. Alban re 'University improvements' - 'The work has been entrusted to Messers Symm & Co...'; orig at. MS. Top. Oxon. a. 33, fol. 4 - see xford & Cambridge Undergraduates' JournalO, 18 October 1883, p. 14 ] [John Johnson 970] [by Walter Alison Philips of Merton College]; Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
