"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
Title from heading above image. and Caption below image: "Oh you'r [sic] the young woman that wants a situtation eh? And I've no doubt you'll do for me!!!"
Title from caption below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Christmas -- Christmas greetings -- Broadsides and posters on wall -- Musical Fesitval -- Choral Fund -- Illustrated broadsheets -- Beggers.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., Caption continues: ... I wish he could see us now -eh., and Temporary local subject terms: Ethnic stereotypes -- Black servants -- Racist images -- Drinking -- Card playing -- Room screens -- Portrait paintings -- Pictures amplify subject.
Title from text above and below image., Print signed with artist's device below artist's initials: A spur., Reissue of no. 14319 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published June 30, 1821, by G. Humphrey., and Temporary local subject terms: The Grand Tour.
A visual pun on the legal profession: The conveyancer is depicted as a pickpocket, the solicitor as a prostitute, and bar practice as a bartender
Description:
Title from text below image., Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Print numbered in ms. near upper edge of sheet: 264.
Publisher:
Published for the propietor by James Bulcock, 17 Park Place, Chelsea
