'Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race - The Start from the Old Aquaduct 1858'
Watercolour signed on mat 'Drawn by D Darroch - No. 4 Cambridge' (matted with a circular opening.)
Cigarett type card titled 'Serie R Aviron No. 22', showing (in a painterly style) a sculler at the finish of a stroke. On the reverse is Text in French and Dutch. From the 'Superchocolat Jacques' collection.
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.
One page from the Illustrated London News p. 356 "The Oxford and Cambridge Universities' Boat-Race. - Cambridge Crew at Practice: Last Row on the Cam".
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.
Cigarette card titled 'Henley Royal Regatta', showing in monochrome photo on card, an eights race from the finish line. On the reverse the heading 'Our Countryside - A Series of 48 - No. 22' with the heading 'Henley Royal Regatta' and underneath text decribing the joys of the regatta. At the bottom 'Senior Service Cigarettes'.
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.
[illus] Canadian Illustrated News p. 153 "The St. John Crew - From Photographs by Phelps, Dalton & Co., Boston. - See page 146" [showing torso portraits of Price, Fulton, Ross and Hutton in rowing gear] 6/00
Cigarette card titled 'Henley Royal Regatta', showing in monochrome photo on card, an eights race from the finish line. On the reverse the heading 'Our Countryside - A Series of 48 - No. 22' with the heading 'Henley Royal Regatta' and underneath text decribing the joys of the regatta. At the bottom 'Senior Service Cigarettes'.
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.
Col. lith. "Robert Chambers, Champion of England. London. Published Oct 7, 1859. Geo. Newbold..." [showing the sculler posed head turned to viewer and leaning forward over his knees in his fixed seat single, with his blades in the water at the catch, and a few houses and what may well be a noted riverside inn scattered amongst trees on the far shore, which is lined with spectators; this was the first significant rowing print I purchased for my collection, with the advice and under the eye of Mildred Reinhardt at the Parker Gallery in the summer of 1970, after our Yale lightweight eight had fallen to Leander in the semi-finals of the Thames Cup; ref: Rickett, number 42; ref: 1984 UCSBex, TEW image reproduced as Fig. 23 at p. 26; ref: 1990 GAGex, TEW image listed as number 22 on p. [10]; matted and framed (for 1990 exhibition)] [image] 16.5" x 26.875"
The Oxford Crew, Winners in the University Boat-Race
Full page illustration published in The Illustrated London News p. 381, on April 22nd 1865, showing nine portraits of the crew members.
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.
One page illustration from the Illustrated London News p. 357 "The Oxford and Cambridge Universities' Boat-Race".
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.
Goblet embossed with two sprays resembling cattails flanking an oval band with monogrammed initials "WEA" and engraved "Shanghai Rowing Club/ Autumn Regatta 1872,/ Club Eights,/ Distance 1 Mile Won by the Blue Boat. Time 5 Min: 22 Sec:/ Bow A. Hickling./ 2 W. H. Gubbins./ 3 C. F. Muller./ 4 C. M. Dyce./5 T. Brewer./ 6 Alex: Campbell./7 W.E. Allum (presumably the WEA)/Stroke, H. W. Daniel./ Cox: C. J. Ashley."
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 Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race
A page from the Illusrated London News p. 421 featuring a collage of three panels signed in the lower left corner Charles J deLacy.
1. Leaving Temple Pier [showing steamers headed for start]
2. Rain, Hail, and Wind: Off Thorneycroft's [showing the two eights laboring through vile weather]
3. Eccentricities of the Course [defies description].
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.