- Published / Created:
- 10 Septr., 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.09.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A droll thought of Tom the school boy, or Two heads are better than one [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Tidd, Julius, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1798]
- Call Number:
- 798.03.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A little boy in tears sits on a low bench holding a bunch of twigs (a switch used for punishment) in his hands. A damaged hornbook with the alphabet lies on the floor
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. March 1, 1798 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Child discipline
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The naughty boy [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- 11th Septr. 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.09.11.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old woman in street attire and a hat is seated on a chair, her left hand raised in admonishment, her right on the hip of a young girl who stands before her weeping. The girl is flanked on either side by an angry man gesticulating with his walking stick and another woman, also weeping
- Alternative Title:
- Miss willing to be in the ton
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Later variant of no. 4631 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Ino. Smith, No.35, Cheapside as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Girls, Child discipline, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The slip, or, Miss, willing to be in the ton [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- as the Act directs 10 Augt. 1778.
- Call Number:
- 778.08.10.03 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old woman in street attire and a hat is seated on a chair, her left hand raised in admonishment, her right on the hip of a young girl who stands before her weeping. The girl is flanked on either side by an angry man gesticulating with his walking stick and another woman, also weeping
- Alternative Title:
- Miss willing to be in the ton
- Description:
- Title from item. and Reduced and later version of no. 4631 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Girls, Child discipline, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The slip, or, Miss, willing to be in the ton [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [January 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.01.00.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A pretty and elegant young woman kneels on a bed supporting her elbows on the pillow. A woman stands beside her raising the girl's skirt in order to birch her, but finds her posterior covered by a life-sized mask which is a close portrait of herself. She says: "Oh ma foi! dot is mine own Head in t'oder place.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Governess outwitted
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., A close copy in reverse of print published by Holland in 1799: The governess delineated, or, A pretty face spoiled. Note from Andrew Edmunds April 2019., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on brown paper backing to 31 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 1817 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Governesses, Child discipline, Beds, Masks, and Young adults
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Two heads better than one, or, The governess outwitted [graphic].