Alma Mater
Fred Barnard [?]
1857
Wood engraving
Punch (15 June 1857): 242
Young Puncheonby “cuts” the army, and goes to Oxford to read for “The Church.”
Tutor. “You are prepared to Subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles — ”
Puncheonby (with alacrity). “Am 'th please 'ah, — ah — how mu-ch — ”
Like its cartoon about a hunting parson Punch here mocks the religious committment — and here also, knowledge — of some clergy in the Established Church.