[A satire on school-masters and school-mistresses] [graphic].

Description

Title: [A satire on school-masters and school-mistresses] [graphic].
Contributor: Toms, W. H. approximately 1700-approximately 1750.
Published / Created: [1766?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title assigned by cataloger based on descriptionin the British Museum catalogue.
Publication date based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2, no. 1858. Publication date of the original in Stephens: ca. 1730.
Plate numbered '2'.
Original etched by W.H. Toms.
Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: As you like this, young gentleman, play truant if you please again, how often must I give you warning, to leave your tricks and mind your learning ...
Copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses. Cf. No. 1862 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: country school-room -- Corporal punishment : birch rods -- Food: ham and sausages.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 28.7 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 33 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1730
Etchings England London 1766
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Asses
Birdcages
Cats
Classrooms
Monkeys
Teachers
Subjects: Asses
Birdcages
Cats
Classrooms
Monkeys
Teachers
England > 1730
England > London > 1766

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