"William IV stands, very erect and stern, in profile to the right, holding at arm's length a birch-rod inscribed 'Reform'. Behind him, as ushers, on the extreme left, Brougham and Grey stand in consultation. The King says to a body of discomfited scho...
Alternative Title:
Headmaster turning out the incorrigibles
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 1831 by S. Gans, Southampton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, Sadler, Michael Thomas, 1780-1835, Wetherell, Charles, Sir, 1770-1846, Twiss, Horace, 1787-1849, Sugden, Edward Burtenshaw, 1781-1875, Hunt, Henry, 1773-1835, Wilson, Robert, Sir, 1777-1849, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Reform, Politics and government, Taxation, School principals, School children, and Punishment devices
A scene in the Abbey Cloisters. Westminster schoolboys in cap and gown terrify a poor woman and a watchman by turnip-headed ghosts, and by one of their number on stilts who is masked and smoking a flaming pipe. Another, seated on a lamp-bracket, disc...
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Boys, Fear, Couples, School children, and Watchmen
The interior of a jeweller's shop, indicated only by three necklaces festooned on the wall and by a door giving on to the street. A lady sits between two men; one (left) points insinuatingly to a box of ear-rings which he holds, the other applies a bo...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd 24th Octr. 1793, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Bagpipes, Dairy workers, Earrings, Jewelers, Jewelry stores, Necklaces, School children, Women, and Young adults
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 littl...
Description:
Title from caption etched below image, above three columns of verse.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Classrooms, Ecucation, School children, and Teachers
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