Sujet

A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Artist: Anon

Légende

'A peep into the Blue Coat School!!!!!!!!!', 1815. Showing a pig in military uniform (General Sir Eyre Coote) standing on its hind legs and being birched by three Christ's Hospital boys. A woman is standing at the doorway with Sir William Curtis and Alderman Matthew Wood. Coote was dismissed from the army in scandalous circumstances after he was caught by the school nurse at the Christ's Hospital School flogging pupils and then being flogged by them for money.

Date

1815

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B01_233

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,0Mo (1,7Mo) / 32,9cm x 22,8cm / 3885 x 2696 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England female women woman people male boy boys child children student man men medicine education pupil country science guy costume watching British English school color colour birch dress schoolchildren war location century city of london Britain schoolchild nurse general clothing beating school uniform lady concept punishment scandal cartoon schoolboy schoolboys military uniform 19th century nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery alderman Alderman of London corporal punishment Lord Mayor of London TGN Matthew Wood Sir Matthew Wood Sir William Curtis Christ's Hospital School Sir Eyre Coote Bluecoat School etching caricature satire Anon Anonymous William George Cruikshank;Cruikshank George Curtis Matthew Sir Matthew Sir William Wood William Curtis Coote Sir Eyre General Sir Eyre Coote