Practical joke in university town, c.1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820
Picture No
11802459
Media ID
47647877
Size
5687px x 4581px
(3.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Woodcut by Robert Cruikshank from 1000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days including Amusing Illustrations from Children's Story Books, Fables, Chap-books & c., published by Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, 1886
Date
C.1820
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