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By: Presumably by Count August Breüner
Date: Presumably in or shortly after 1822
Format: Sketch reproduced in The life and correspondence of William Buckland (1894)
Description: Buckland visits the city of Halle on a tour of the continent and has a right old laugh. Halle is a university town, and Buckland was a member of the natural history society there. I've found no information about what has just happened in this scene, but apparently whatever it was, it was hilarious. Some of the figures hold geologic hammers, and a map is tumbling to the ground.
Maybe they have just been reading geology cartoons.
There are a few other travel illustrations in Life and Correspondence, all presumably by Breüner, but as no information has been given about the episodes depicted, and as they appear to be only straight-forward depictions with little cartoon value, they have not been included in this archive.
For information on Breüner, see his entry on the biography page.
For more on Buckland, see his entry.
Format: Sketch reproduced in The life and correspondence of William Buckland (1894)
Description: Buckland visits the city of Halle on a tour of the continent and has a right old laugh. Halle is a university town, and Buckland was a member of the natural history society there. I've found no information about what has just happened in this scene, but apparently whatever it was, it was hilarious. Some of the figures hold geologic hammers, and a map is tumbling to the ground.
Maybe they have just been reading geology cartoons.
There are a few other travel illustrations in Life and Correspondence, all presumably by Breüner, but as no information has been given about the episodes depicted, and as they appear to be only straight-forward depictions with little cartoon value, they have not been included in this archive.
For information on Breüner, see his entry on the biography page.
For more on Buckland, see 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 17. Link [archive.org]
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