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The Oldenburg procession through Oxford. May 1814

• Object type

  • satirical print
  • print

• Museum number

  1868,0808.8154

• Title (object)

  • The Oldenburg procession through Oxford. May 1814

• Description

  Evidently by an amateur. The names of the four Russians who advance from the right in profile are etched below the design. A hugely broad and fat don at the head of a procession of senior, and very ugly, members of the University takes with his left hand the left hand of the 'Duchess of Oldenburgh' who is straight and thin, her head entirely concealed in a huge 'Oldenburgh bonnet', and wearing long hanging sleeves resembling those of the dons' gowns. Behind him (left) is a don holding a (?) Bible. The duchess is followed by two hideous old women, broad and squat, 'Mesds Aladensky & Volochousky' [? the wife of Prince Nikita Volkonsky, A.D.C. to the Tsar]. Behind them walks 'Prince Gagarin', hat in hand, very broad and tall, and heavily whiskered. In the middle distance is a crowd of slim undergraduates, some of whom throw their caps into the air, with a few ladies. Behind is the dome of the Radcliffe Camera with the towers and spires of Oxford.
  1816
  Etching

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• Producer name

  • Print made by: John Hughes

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1816

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 217 millimetres
  • Width: 336 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered below image with the title, names of characters, and artist's name:' J. H delt & sculpt 1816'.

• Curator's comments

  (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
  For the visit (in June), see No. 12283, &c.

  See also 1852,0216.116

• Bibliography

  • BM Satires 12820

• Location

  Not on display (Satires British 1816 Unmounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • satire

• Associated names

  • Associated with: Prince Nicholas Gagarin
  • Associated with: Ekaterina Pavlovna of Russia
  • Associated with: Princess Zenaide Wolkonsky

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: Edward Hawkins (estate of)

• Acquisition date

  1868

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1868,0808.8154