A smiling school master in a wig applies the switch to a boy whose rear has a painted face on it. The boy being switched is lifted onto the back of another boy. On the left, two boys holding open books look on, one snickering behind his hand. The classroom includes a map on the wall and a shelf with books and quill pens in ink stands
Alternative Title:
Two heads are better than one
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Number '136' appears in lower left corner of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Child discipline, Classrooms, Students, and Teachers
"Scene in a school-room, pupils performing for admiring relations and friends. Eight little girls in party frocks do dance-steps while an agitated dancing-master leans angrily towards them, playing his fiddle. Other little girls watch from a bench (right). Boys sit in two tiers on an improvised platform from which they have stuck pens in the wig of an aged schoolmaster who is greeting a visitor. A dressed-up old woman hands a tray of refreshments to caricatured guests seated on the left, while four dandified men stand on the right. An ugly old woman snuffs a candle while she menaces the group of boys. On the wall are a sampler and drawings perpetrated by the pupils. There is a hanging gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 15187 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published Dec. 12, 1826, by S. Knights., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
An illustrated and engraved song: Caleb Quotem, the Parish Clerk, stands as if addressing the audience; he wears neat, old-fashioned dress, with flowered waistcoat. The scene is a village schoolroom, a day school. A little boy sits on a stool; a little boy and girl sit together on a form. The room is bare, with a table and a high shelf on which is a saucepan. A church can be seen through a window
Description:
Title from caption etched below image, above three columns of verse., One line of text above design: Sung by Mr. Fawcett, in the popular farce of the review, or the Wags of Windsor., Plate is numbered '420' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Three columns of verse below title: I'm parish clerk and sexton here, my name is Caleb Quotem ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Classrooms, Ecucation, School children, and Teachers
"Interior view of the Royal Military Asylum, showing a school room; the boys in uniforms of red and blue seated at desks and rows of benches against back wall, instructed by a man in red rail-coat with pointer; to the left two men sit at semi-circular desks at opposite ends of the room, as boys stand in line facing them, holding books."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 99., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 256.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Royal Military Asylum.
Subject (Topic):
Military academies, Interiors, Classrooms, and Uniforms
Title from item., In margin lower left: Dairy Council, Posture 4., Date derived from clothing styles depicted., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Dairy Council
Subject (Topic):
Posture, Milk in human nutrition, Students, and Classrooms
A group of three students wearing mortar caps sit in the center of a classroom as their examiners on either side pose questions in Latin. The large student in the middle rubs his chin, a worried look on his face. In the foreground on the right, a dog urinates on an open volume of Aristotle
Alternative Title:
Examination in the public schoots at Ox-d for a degree and Examination in the public schools at Oxford for a degree
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably by James Hook., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Britannia with olive branch on oval shield with crown above.
Publisher:
Pub. June 20, 1789, by I. Bradshaw, Coventry St.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
University of Oxford
Subject (Topic):
Students, Education, Dogs, Classrooms, Examinations, Teachers, and Urination
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Devil as teacher training a choir composed of politicians."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Charles Jameson Grant in the British Museum online catalogue., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., One line of quoted text below title: "Tantarara, rogues all.", Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and series statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Numbered "109" in brown ink in top center portion of design., and No. 109.
Publisher:
Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1792]
Call Number:
792.03.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed on sides within plate mark., Three lines of text below image: I don't know what this is Sir ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Primers -- Furniture: wooden ladderback chair -- Architectural details: casement window with diamond pattern.
Publisher:
Published March 1st 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Birdcages, Children, Classrooms, Poverty, and Teachers
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., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: country school-room -- Corporal punishment : birch rods -- Food: ham and sausages.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Asses, Birdcages, Cats, Classrooms, Monkeys, and Teachers
