Photograph of Consulting the Bird of Wisdom (stuffed) on a Waytey matter (very rare). De cunctis consule cunctando [Samuel William Wayte, President of Trinity College, as an owl on the outstretched right-hand palm of a goddess figure with 'crown' of the Radcliffe Camera; Trinity College Chapel in background]. [marginal note: 'An undergraduate is reported to have been punished for calling Dr. Wayte a 'stuffed owl', when he met him in the Quad speechless with indignation at some peccadillo'. G.R.S., 1921] [John Johnson 15] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
G.A. Oxon. 4o 412, fol. 15
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Title
Photograph of Consulting the Bird of Wisdom (stuffed) on a Waytey matter (very rare). De cunctis consule cunctando [Samuel William Wayte, President of Trinity College, as an owl on the outstretched right-hand palm of a goddess figure with 'crown' of the Radcliffe Camera; Trinity College Chapel in background]. [marginal note: 'An undergraduate is reported to have been punished for calling Dr. Wayte a 'stuffed owl', when he met him in the Quad speechless with indignation at some peccadillo'. G.R.S., 1921] [John Johnson 15] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
Shelfmark
G.A. Oxon. 4o 412, fol. 15
Date
[c.1870]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures
Shrimpton caricatures Volume 1
Photograph of Consulting the Bird of Wisdom (stuffed) on a Waytey matter (very rare). De cunctis consule cunctando [Samuel William Wayte, President of Trinity College, as an owl on the outstretched right-hand palm of a goddess figure with 'crown' of the Radcliffe Camera; Trinity College Chapel in background]. [marginal note: 'An undergraduate is reported to have been punished for calling Dr. Wayte a 'stuffed owl', when he met him in the Quad speechless with indignation at some peccadillo'. G.R.S., 1921] [John Johnson 15] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
