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The Irish Schoolmaster - drawn by E. Fitzpatrick, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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The Irish Schoolmaster - drawn by E. Fitzpatrick, 1857. '...as human nature is never perfect, even in the wisest of mankind, there is one failing inseparably allied with the Hedge Schoolmaster - he is a little too fond of "the drop"...there may be, as is often the case, a rival schoolmaster in the adjacent village...The meeting of those worthies is as "Greek to Greek". No two gamecocks could regard each other more fiercely, and the encounter of wits is often as decisive and deadly. Here lies the Hedge Schoolmaster's real danger. If in the opinion of the excited company he is put down in the discussion, even on such a point as the "Irish tutor" puzzled the great Dr. O'Toole, when he asked him the exact position Ballyragget occupied on the globe, his fame is gone. The cry is up through the country, "The master was beat in the 'larnin'", and in a day or two the schoolmaster is literally "abroad"...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A75_249

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

25,3Mo (2,5Mo) / 31,4cm x 20,2cm / 3709 x 2385 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal building drink female women woman people male job man men hat education arts teacher country drinking pub dog dogs books book guy occupation clothes British alcohol beer public house color competition Ireland Irish dress rustic inn location century gesturing Britain teaching profession argument arguing newspapers press clothing drunk literature porter concept barrel barrels top hat top hats drunkenness APPAREL B&W hand gesture educator tavern disputing liquor drunken engraved engraving racism hand Gestures Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century racist rural The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown Regionalism tophat 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing Edmund Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Edmund implied racism racial stereotype