'Brian Boru Esqr. proclaimed the winner of the Boat-race for a Cow.' - Hand coloured copperplate engraving [satirical view showing BB straddling a cow standing in a skiff with a rower in the bow, and excited crowds on the banks]
London, March 30, 1822.
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
The Supper at Surley. - 4th of June.
Published by J. Ryman, High St. Oxford c1852.
Un-mounted colour lithograph showing a field in which men in top hats surround the Eton students wearing boaters and sitting at a table laden with plates and bottles - a number of carriages are visible at the edge of the crowd, and unfurled flags are seen throughout the gathering, perhaps indicating the various boats (or Eton houses) represented at the feast.
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
To the Gentlemen of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Club. This View of Mortlake with the Boat Race April 4th 1868 is respectfully dedicated by their obliged & obedient Servant J. Hogarth.
George Chambers Delt. T. Boys, Lith. London, Published July 1st, 1868 by J. Hogarth & Sons.
Mounted colour lithograph showing two starboard stroked eights (historically inaccurate) in left mid distance followed by a flotilla of steamers, with an immense throng along the near right shore and spectators packing several spritsail barges and cutters moored in the foreground
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
The Dead Heat. - University Boat Race, 1877. Saturday, March 24th
Charles Robinson, Del. Published by The National Events Art-Illustration Society, 10, Milford Lane - Thomas Fox, Publisher. Maclure & Macdonald, London.
Mouted colour lithograph also giving the seat, name, college and weight of each of the Oxford crew in lower left corner and the Cambridge crew in the lower right corner. Signed in bottom left corner of plate "CR";
Showing the two eights in close combat at the finish at Mortlake, followed by the Umpire, Oxford and Cambridge steamers, with spectator boats and onlookers crowding the far shore in the background.
(the coloring inexplicably shows the Oxford crew (except the coxswain) in light blue and the Cambridge crew in pink)
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. No. 4 A run on the Banks during the Race.
Mounted hand coloured graphotype showing crowds racing along the river, with mishaps galore.
c1880.
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
90/100 Boat Race Eight Annabel Eyres 1990
Un-mounted coloured silkscreen showing lino/vorticist high stern view of men's eight in mid stroke. The boat divides the frame into light and dark blue water, and the oarsmen alternate light and dark blue uniforms.
This design was originally utilized to decorate T-shirts for the "Rock the Boat" label, and was later adapted as a print (the signed date represents the date the design was created, not necessarily the date the print was pulled).
Annabel Eyres was a member of the British national rowing squad for years, placing fifth in the women's quad in the 1996 Barcelona Olympics; her powerful, colorful, exuberant and dynamic designs constitute some of the best graphic work celebrating the sport of rowing.
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
'After a Race'
Colour print of a Dickinson & Foster's illustration of "After A Race" at Henley Regatta. A very crowded river scene with many spectator boats on the river and two story spectator boats all along the riverbank.
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.
Book plate map
Showing the Boat Race course from Putney to Mortlake, with four photos affixed: Putney, Putney Reach Old Hammersmith Bridge and At Mortlake from Henry Taunt,
From :A NEW MAP OF THE RIVER THAMES FROM THAMES HEAD TO LONDON (5th edition) [matted] 7/01
Part of the Thomas E. Weil Collection. Thomas E. Weil is a very knowledgeable and respected collector of rowing memorabilia from all over the world. His extensive collection includes material from many years of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, and Henley Royal Regatta. He also lectures and writes on rowing history and is a Trustee of the River and Rowing Museum.