Teach Collection (page 6)

Feast in the House of Simon, 18th / early 19th century. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Feast in the House of Simon, 18th/early 19th century. From a private collection

Clinic at the School of Dentistry, Paris, 1892. A female student treating a patient under supervision

Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Artist: DJ Pound
Sir Richard Owen, English zoologist, c1860. Owen studied medicine at Edinburgh and at St Bartholomews and became curator in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons where he produced a fine series

Composers Nikolai Myaskovsky and Aram Khachaturian, 1933. Khachaturian (1903-1978) studied composition under Myaskovsky (1881-1950) at the Moscow Conservatory between 1929 and 1934

Roman relief of a schoolroom scene

Thomas Arnold (1795-1842), British educationalist and scholar, 1869. Arnold was the famous headmaster of Rugby School, who features in Thomas Hughes Tom Browns Schooldays

February - Cutting Weather, 1839. Artist: George Cruikshank
February - Cutting Weather, 1839. A typical day at Dr Swishtails Academy. Boys at their desks look on as the schoolmaster punishes a boy by flogging him with the birch

Teaching girls to read in the Ragged School Union school, Lambeth, London, 1868. The Ragged School Union was a charity founded in 1844 by the social reformer Lord Shaftesbury to establish schools

Schoolboy having knowledge beaten into him with the birch, 1526
Schoolboy having knowledge beaten into him with the birch, a scene familiar to schoolboys in Europe and Britain. Illustration for February from Les petites Heures a l usage de Chartres, 1526

Masters and pupils at the Athenian school where studies included music. Greek red figure vessel. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin

Dance Class, 1874. Artist: Edgar Degas
Dance Class, 1874. Located in the collection at, Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) as a youth, listening to his tutor Aristotle, c1875. In only 13 years, Alexander III of Macedon conquered a vast empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India

Alexander Adam (1741-1809) Scottish teacher and writer. Headmaster Watsons Hospital, Edinburgh, and of High School, Edinburgh (1768). Engraving after portrait by Raeburn

Jesus teaching on the sea shore, c1890. Artist: James Tissot
Jesus teaching on the sea shore, c1890. Bible, New Testament, St Matthew Ch 12. From The Life of our Saviour Jesus Christ by JJ Tissot, c1890

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American teacher and transcendentalist
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) American teacher and transcendentalist. Father of Louisa May Alcott. Wood engraving, 1875

Young girl being given a piano lesson, Paris, 1889. Wood engraving

Mixed Sunday School class in a poor district of London, 1873. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving

Boys class at an American Sunday School, 1890. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving

Roman mosaic of Plato and his school of philosophers, Pompeii, Italy

James Beattie (1735-1803), Scottish poet, essayist and schoolmaster. He is shown holding his Essay on Truth (1770) attacking David Hume

The Rod Still in Pickle, 1883. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Rod Still in Pickle, 1883. The Liberal Prime Minister, Gladstone, in the guise of a schoolmaster, reviews the progress of his pupils at the end of term

The Anti-Semitic Movement, 1881. Punch illustrates how anti-Semitism was rife in both teaching and culture in 1881. From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 30, 1881

Soapey Samuel Kisses the Rod, 1858. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, was a reformer of the Church of England who dragged his priests into greater spirituality and efficiency

A Plaister for Pam. 1858. Like a whipped schoolboy, and rubbing his bruises, Palmerston is receiving from Mr Punch (who had been vociferous in his opposition to the Bill)

Typewriting class for women, Blackheath Road Evening Institute, London, 1914

Examination class for male and female students, Queens Road Evening Institute, London, 1908
Written examination in cvc class for male and female students, Queens Road Evening Institute, London, 1908. Seated in a hall in long rows, with teachers at the back

Bobbin lace and embroidery class, Northern Polytechnic, London, 1907. Female students gathered round a table, with examples of their work on a board behind them and in the foreground

Technical instruction, Haselrigge Road School, Clapham, London, 1914. A class of boys receiving instruction in the technique of edging, used in optical industries

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