A Fit of the Blues

A Fit of the Blues

Engraving

Fun (5 April 1876): 149

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Like “Boat-eana” three years before, this cartoon jokingly looks forward to a time when women will compete, though in this case the Cambridge women from Girton College are depicted beating the Oxford oarsmen rather than competing with women students at Oxford.

Signed with monogram lower left

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