Sujet

Going To School, by T. Webster, R.A., in the National Gallery..., South Kensington, 1864. Creator: W Thomas.

Légende

Going To School, by T. Webster, R.A., in the National Gallery (British School), South Kensington, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'Two boys are "creeping, like snail, unwillingly to school." The elder, skulking irresolutely at the door of the school, long after the opening hour, is in the act of doffing his cap in order to make his entrance in a submissive and deprecating manner; and we have no doubt that he will try do put the best face upon his late appearance. But the younger boy, perhaps his brother, who may have been a half-unwilling accomplice, cannot conceal his guilty terror. Indeed, the elder one, simple urchin as he is, and but little practised in the art of deceiving, forgets that terribly criminating evidence of his truant wickedness - the stalk strung with birds' eggs, which he carries in his hand...Meantime a scholar inside, who has caught a sight of the truant, seems, boylike, already to anticipate the fun of seeing his fellow's punishment; but the little girl, threading her needle to proceed with her sampler, will be more likely to cry...the old dame, sitting near her hour-glass (which runs ominously low), is teaching a little one to read'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A25_435

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,2Mo (5,4Mo) / 31,0cm x 39,0cm / 3662 x 4603 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal female women woman people male boy boys child children girl girls learning job animals cat cats education arts painting doorway teacher art occupation reading feline British school color village door doors rustic schoolchildren location Victorian century late Britain teaching profession schoolchild naughty kitsch newspapers press picture print literacy concept pictures B&W behaviour educator reluctance schoolboy schoolgirl schoolgirls schoolboys old woman gender engraved engraving felines reluctant Colour 19th century elderly woman black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century rural The Print Collector Illustrated London News rural life ILN Thomas Webster newspaper W Thomas Thomas W Regionalism Webster Thomas 19th-century W. Thomas Thomas W.