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Photograph (?Albumen Print or Early Gelatine Print) of a Cartoon Relating to Vivisection in Oxford, the Original Cartoon by Tommy Dated 1884

Inventory Number 73074


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.73074

Item type
Object
Provenance
Probably from R. T. Gunther.
Primary inscriptions
Signed 'Tommy' within image.
Other inscriptions
Annotation on back by R. T. Gunther.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 129mm Width: 155mm
Inventory No
73074

Description

Albumen print or early gelatine print. Copy of what appears to be a pen-and-ink cartoon headed 'Bodley Vivisection: Not in the Blue Book', showing Burdon Sanderson vivisecting Bodley's Librarian, presumably satirising a debate about vivisection in 1884. Signed within the image. One of 4 photographic copies of Oxford cartoons used by R. T. Gunther in his publications (others are 17203, 35198, 66924); neither the source of the photographs (which look older) nor the whereabouts of the originals are recorded.