FDA-E.2791-2016
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.2791-2016
Object type
Identification
Title
Eton Montem and the Mount - Salt Hill
Title Type
assigned by artist
Comments
This illustration featured in The English Spy (1825) by Bernard Blackmantle. The author pokes fun at elderly local resident Herbert Stockhore. Stockhore was encouraged by Etonians to write a Montem Ode for each procession and enjoyed attending the Montems wearing his own costume. The entertainment of his verse was in its lack of merit:
Then to Salthill speed on,
While the troops they lead on;
Both Mr. Beadon,
And Serjeant Mitford,
Who's ready to fi't for't.
Then to Salthill speed on,
While the troops they lead on;
Both Mr. Beadon,
And Serjeant Mitford,
Who's ready to fi't for't.
Other number
CL 247
Description
Content (event)
Montem
Dimensions
height (actual size): 140mm
width (actual size): 239mm
width (actual size): 239mm
Production
Person
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789 - 1856 (Engraver)
Date
1824
