By: Presumably by Count August Breüner?
Date: Presumably 1820s?
Format: Sketch.
Description: William Buckland leads a class trip to Shotover Hill, three miles from Oxford. Field trips have by necessity always been part of geology courses, and he often took students to Shotover. It was a place where Buckland's own geological interest was kindled. Buckland was apparently well-liked as a lecturer, and his field excursions were popular.
There is a story of a student jokingly asking Buckland if a nest of lark's eggs found on Shotover counted as part of the oolite.
It seems that in the first two sketches there is a character with an umbrella. In the third, the man on horseback is wearing similar clothes and hat, and a spiky rod which could be an cane or umbrella. If so, perhaps the man with the cane is William Buckland. But if that's the case, it's hard to see why Buckland should be kicking (breaking?) the bag of someone collecting rock samples.
I assume this is Breüner's sketch, but in truth The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland does not explicitly say who the artist is. It does attribute other sketches in a similar style to him.
For information on Breüner, see his entry on the biography page.
For more information on Buckland, his entry.
Format: Sketch.
Description: William Buckland leads a class trip to Shotover Hill, three miles from Oxford. Field trips have by necessity always been part of geology courses, and he often took students to Shotover. It was a place where Buckland's own geological interest was kindled. Buckland was apparently well-liked as a lecturer, and his field excursions were popular.
There is a story of a student jokingly asking Buckland if a nest of lark's eggs found on Shotover counted as part of the oolite.
It seems that in the first two sketches there is a character with an umbrella. In the third, the man on horseback is wearing similar clothes and hat, and a spiky rod which could be an cane or umbrella. If so, perhaps the man with the cane is William Buckland. But if that's the case, it's hard to see why Buckland should be kicking (breaking?) the bag of someone collecting rock samples.
I assume this is Breüner's sketch, but in truth The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland does not explicitly say who the artist is. It does attribute other sketches in a similar style to him.
For information on Breüner, see his entry on the biography page.
For more information on Buckland, his entry.
Sources & further discussion:
Gordon, E. O. (1894). The life and correspondence of William Buckland, DD, FRS: sometime dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological society, and first president of the British association. London: J. Murray. Link [archive.org]
Image yoinked from:
Gordon, E. O. (1894). The life and correspondence of William Buckland, DD, FRS: sometime dean of Westminster, twice president of the Geological society, and first president of the British association. London: J. Murray. pg 29. Link [archive.org]
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