Punting Collection (page 2)

Hiroshige woodcut - Seba: Moorise
Reproduction of a woodcut by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) entitled: Seba: Moorise'. Date: circa early 19th century

Busy scene at Shiplake Lock on the River Thames, probably taken early in the 20th century. Date: early 20th century

Dal Lake, Kashmir, India - Shikara Boat
The shikara, a type of Indian wooden boat shown here on Dal Lake and found on many other water bodies of Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1910s

Landing Stage - Nuthalls Restaurant - Kingston-on-Thames. Nuthalls offered luncheons, teas, dinners and public, private or Masonic banquets! Date: 1911

Summer in Silhouette by H. L. Oakley
Silhouette of a summer scene with a couple in swimwear punting on a river. Date: 1925

Prince of Waless birthday regatta at Windsor
Regatta at Windsor on 12 August 1793 in honour of the Prince of Waless birthday. 1793

Regatta at Windsor for the Prince of Wales birthday
Regatta at Windsor on 12 August 1793, in honour of the Prince of Wales birthday. 1793

Flooding in Paris - Parisian punting down Rue Massillon
Flooding in Paris - A very typical Parisian punting down Rue Massillon on an old door, with Notre Dame in the background - 30th January, 1910. Date: 1910

Valencia, Spain - Lago de la Albufera (Lake Albufera). Date: circa 1907

British Countryside - On the River Cherwell
British Countryside - Punting and rowing on the River Cherwell, a tributary of the Isis (or Upper Thames), which it joins at Oxford. Date: 1938

Girl with a punt pole
Young undergraduate girl in a panama punting. Date: 1904

Punting on the River Thames at Twickenham Date: circa 1920s

Punting on the river, Cambridge University
Punting on the river with a bicycle on board, Cambridge University. Date: 1967

Rag week stunt on the river, Cambridge University, showing students in costume in a punt, one of them playing bagpipes, another playing a drum. Date: 1967

Peek Frean Biscuits advertising trade card - punting on the river. late 19th century

Japanese woman taken out for a moonlit boat trip on the lake Date: circa 1900

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Dose the Doctors daughter. 1928

Lady Punts Two Others
On the Thames at Dorchester, Oxfordshire, a lady punts while her three friends take life easy. Date: 1906

Vesta Tilley, punting
Vesta Tilley (1864 - 1952), Music hall entertainer, best known for her male impersonations - seen here with a friend on the river

May de Sousa (1884 1948), American singer and a Broadway actress, modelling a white plain dress, suitable clothing for punting. 1906

Poster, railway service from Paris to London, via Rouen, Dieppe and Newhaven. Showing a man on a punt and a couple in a rowing boat. Date: early 20th century

WW1 - A Punt Patrol
WW1 - Leisurely cruising down a river, the well-prepared punter has a canon gun positioned at the front of the boat. Date: 1915

River frocks, dresses for boating from Barkers, 1919 advert
Advertisement for John Barker and Company of High Street, Kensington, offering their bizarre river frocks in a range of fantastic coloured linens and cretonnes

Dainty frock for regattas 1909
Woman wearing a large brimmed hat trimmed with scarf ninon and palest poppies, dress poplin linen, trimmed with appliques of linen outlining a guimpe of tucked muslin. 1909

When Three ARE Company by A. K. Macdonald
An amorous couple sit entwined in a boat on a river at nightime while a cupid watches over them to ensure the romance goes smoothly. Date: 1922

Chiaroscura in Silhouette by H. L. Oakley
Sunshine and shade in summer time. A set of idyllic scenes during the summer cut by the famous silhouette artist, Captain H. L. Oakley. Top picture shows a group frolicking by the sea

Subaltern stunts by H. L. Oakley
A double page spread of silhouette vignettes by the famous silhouette artist, Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley, featuring scenes during a WW1 subaltern officers ten days leave in England

Tatler front cover, 1963 - Punting on the Cam
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a view from Clare Bridge in Cambridge showing basking in the suns rays while lounging in the rivers famous punts. Date: 1963

People boating on a river. Date: 1920s

The Mind of the Nation by J. L. Carstairs
A montage of images showing various people enjoying sports and activities including tennis, motoring, golf, cricket, swimming, punting, fishing and even butterfly catching

Cambridge Punting Scene
A summers day scene on the Backs at Cambridge, showing Clare College, by the River Cam, Cambridgeshire, England. Date: 1950s

Couple take a gondola ride on the canals of Bruges, Belgium
A medieval couple take a gondola ride on the canals of Bruges, Belgium Date: circa 16th century

Vietnam - Young boys punting on a river / stream Date: circa 1950s

Three Russian women in traditional costume off boating
Three Russian women in traditional costume head off for a boating jaunt on a still lake (or a very wide river - possibly the Volga?). Date: circa 1902

River Humour - The Amateur Punter circa 1909

Silhouette of a woman with a parasol

In the Gloaming by Balliol Salmon
A pre-war (pre-WWI) Idyll of the Thames, with a young man serenading his two female companions (possibly with a ukelele?!) as they drift slowly along the Thames in a boat. Date: 1930

Log boat - Romania
Crossing a river by a log boat, Romania. Date: circa 1905

Saint-Omer, France - View at Clairmarais Date: circa 1910s

Eights Week - Oxford
Summer Eights is a bumps race that constitutes Oxford Universitys main intercollegiate rowing event of the year. The regatta takes place in May every year

Santa Anita Canal, Mexico, a place used for chinampa-based agriculture. Chinampa is a method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small

Punting on the River Cam
Happy students punting on the River Cam, Cambridge, England. Date: late 1960s

Stuck Up - A Punting Disaster
Two illustrations of the phrase Stuck Up. In the main scene, an unlucky man is stuck on his pole as a quiet afternoon punting with his lady loves goes rather wrong (he has lost his hat too!)

Rafting on the Rio Grande, Port Antonio, Jamaica Date: circa 1910s

A flood in the village of Meulan, France in January 1910. Quai Albert-Joly. Date: 1910

Traditional river ferryboat - Vietnam Date: circa 1902

Punting - pushing off from the bank. " I can just Manage" Date: 1902

Punting at Cambridge 2
Punting on the Cam (also known as the Granta) on the Backs at Cambridge; at Cambridge, punters stand on the flat platform at the stern of the vessel. Date: 1950s

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