The Schoolmistress at Home

A Parks (publisher)

The Schoolmistress at Home

London, ca 1830

Engraving

Original hand colouring

210 x 310 mm

£120

A country schoolmistress is sleeping in her chair while all the young girls are mis-behaving. Two are tampering with the clock on the wall, one is playing with a cat, a broken picture on the floor between them. Others, dancing about and making fun of the sleeping teacher