Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprieto...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1799]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 19 Box D175
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A mother dressed in a poke bonnet and long loose-fitting white dress holds the hand of her young daughter who wears a blue sash and feather plumed hat. The child says "Mamma I want some money to buy cakes" while her mother responds "How can you be so ...
Description:
Signed by the artist; title from caption in the artist's hand.
A young woman carries a basket of chickens in one hand and a brace of fowl in her other hand as she sets out to the market. She looks out at the viewer as she is watched by a woman in the doorway of a cottage on the right. She is accompanied by a litl...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 26, 1792, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
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