Photograph of Oxford Nincompoopiana [2 aesthetes seated in high back chairs opposite each other, drinking tea in room with flowered wallpaper, discussing the colour of fields, trees, the sky (peacock blue) and a nightingale, etc. cf. George du Maurier's cartoon on aestheticism in Punch, 20 December 1879, p. 282] [John Johnson 623] [by Herbert Delaval Astley of Christ Church];Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
G.A. Oxon. 4o 415, fol. 623
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Title
Photograph of Oxford Nincompoopiana [2 aesthetes seated in high back chairs opposite each other, drinking tea in room with flowered wallpaper, discussing the colour of fields, trees, the sky (peacock blue) and a nightingale, etc. cf. George du Maurier's cartoon on aestheticism in Punch, 20 December 1879, p. 282] [John Johnson 623] [by Herbert Delaval Astley of Christ Church];Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
Shelfmark
G.A. Oxon. 4o 415, fol. 623
Date
[c.1879]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures
Shrimpton caricatures Volume 4
Photograph of Oxford Nincompoopiana [2 aesthetes seated in high back chairs opposite each other, drinking tea in room with flowered wallpaper, discussing the colour of fields, trees, the sky (peacock blue) and a nightingale, etc. cf. George du Maurier's cartoon on aestheticism in Punch, 20 December 1879, p. 282] [John Johnson 623] [by Herbert Delaval Astley of Christ Church];Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
