Photogravure in sepia ink after A Dame's School by Thomas Webster: the mistress of an English village school hears the children's lessons in a flagged room with a beamed ceiling, the door open to the fields. Dame schools were household schools kept by a local woman in return for a modest fee.
Photogravure in sepia ink after A Dame's School by Thomas Webster: the mistress of an English village school hears the children's lessons in a flagged room with a beamed ceiling, the door open to the fields. Dame schools were household schools kept by a local woman in return for a modest fee.
Medium: Photogravure in sepia ink.
Artist / after: after Thomas George Webster (1800-1886).
Date: 1899.
Source: The Art Portfolio: Reproductions of National Art Treasures; W. B. Jobson & Co., London.
Dimensions: 16.5 x 11.4 in (42 x 29 cm).
Condition: With faults: loss of paper and a tear at the upper right corner of the sheet, and wavy, somewhat rubbed edges. The image is not affected.