Large original wood engraving, in black and blue, titled 'OXFORD | AQUATICS AT THE UNIVERSITIES | CAMBRIDGE', containing eight images of rowing and punting.

Printed on one side of a piece of cream wove paper, roughly 41.5 x 60 cm. Central vertical crease. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. A little grubby, with a few closed tears and slight creasing to extremities. Consists of two rectangles (each 29 x 22.5 cm) in black ink, each containing four illustrations, surrounded by an ornate thick blue decorative border of intertwined mermarids, rowers, children in boats, swans, fishes and other aquatic motifs. The illustrations in the left-hand rectangle are jocular ('Now then, "Five", late as usual, "Tumble in" '; 'The Floods out "Charging the hedges" '; 'Capsized "The Balance of Fate" '; 'The Start for the "Torpids" Five Minutes Gone') and those in the left-hand rectangle are serious ('Coaching from the Bank'; 'Robinson Crusoe'; 'A Bump' and 'A View up Long Reach').