James Gordon, a notorious Cambridge drunk, leaving a baby as a prank in front of the house of a college dean. Jemmy Gordon's Frolic, or Cambridge Gambols at Peter House. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

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