Accession number
PML 140273.3
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1823].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Signed "Charlet" within the image at lower left.
Comprises plate 12 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Signed "Charlet" within the image at lower left.
Comprises plate 12 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 175 x 228 mm; sheet: 265 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a village schoolmaster seated at a table in the center of a schoolroom brandishing a ferule; in front of him stands a small boy to whom the schoolmaster gestures angrily, directing him to place his hands on the edge of the table to receive punishment; at lower right, another small child sits on the floor wearing a dunce cap with asses' ears, and three other pupils are shown seated at the master's back, looking on with expressions of alarm.
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