Teacher Collection (#18)

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

Turnvater Jahn 1778-1852, 1934. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852), German gymnastics educator and nationalist. His admirers know him as Turnvater Jahn, roughly meaning father of gymnastics Jahn

Dr Joseph Joachim, 1903. Artist: Philip A de Laszlo
Dr Joseph Joachim, 1903. Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. From The Studio Volume 40. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1907]

Ellen Et Sa Grandmere, c1897. Artist: Paul Helleu
Ellen Et Sa Grandmere, c1897. From The Studio Volume 10 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

Modern moderation strikingly displayed, 1799. Artist: Kay
Modern moderation strikingly displayed, 1799. Modern moderation strikingly displayed, or a ministerial visitation of a sabbath evening school

School, early 18th century (1894). An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume IV, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1894

A Bad Example, 1878. Artist: Swain
A Bad Example, 1878. Satirical cartoon featuring Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). From Punch (or the London Charivari) magazine (1878)

Isaac Barrow, 17th century English classical scholar, theologian, and mathematician, (c1850). Barrow (1630-1677) was the teacher of Isaac Newton

The Scholastic Hen and Her Chickens, 19th century. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Scholastic Hen and Her Chickens, 19th century. Noses to the North. Miss Thimblebee: Turn your heads the other way my dears, for here are two horridly handsome officers coming

The Good Education, 1753, (1885). Artist: Jacques Philippe Le Bas
The Good Education, 1753, (1885). Drawing based on an original painting by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin

Alexander Adam, Scottish teacher and writer on Roman antiquities, (1870). Artist:s Freeman
Alexander Adam, Scottish teacher and writer on Roman antiquities, (1870). An engraving of Adam (1741-1809) from Robert Chambers A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Blackie and Son

The Old Hedge School, 1872. Artist: C Burt
The Old Hedge School, 1872. Engraving from John Gilmary Sheas A Childs History of the United States, Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872)

Edward Terry in My Pretty Maid, c1902. Artist: Bassano Studio
Edward Terry in My Pretty Maid, c1902. Portrait of British actor Edward Terry

Sir Rowland Hill, British teacher, pamphleteer and creator of penny postage, 19th century. Hill (1795-1879) founded the present postal system when, in 1840

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and teacher, late 19th century. Born in Portland, Maine, Longfellow (1807-1882) is popularly remembered today for his poem Paul Reveres Ride (1863)

First walk to boys school, 1737. Artist: Vanmour (Van Mour), Jean-Baptiste (1671-1737)
First walk to boys school, 1737. Found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

At the School Door, 1897. Artist: Bogdanov-Belsky, Nikolai Petrovich (1868-1945)
At the School Door, 1897. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Russian composer, teacher and conductor, 1929. Glazunov (1865-1935) was Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1905 until 1928

Alexander Siloti, Russian pianist and conductor, and Peter Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, 1888. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) wrote music across a broad range of genres

French teachers visiting Algeria during the school holidays, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 6th September 1903

In Algeria, Margaret in trouble, 1901. The courageous teacher under attack, Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 19th May 1901

Childrens Holiday Camp during School Holidays, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 30th August 1903

Caricature of the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, 1898. Artist: Henri Meyer
Caricature of the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, 1898. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 10th July 1898

Mademoiselle Eugenie Bonnefois, founder of a school for children of fairground workers, 1897. Artist: F Meaulle
Mademoiselle Eugenie Bonnefois, founder of a school for children of fairground workers, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 5th December 1897

Heroism of a teacher, 1902. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 7th December 1902

Amalric of Bena teaching, c1200, (1375-1379). In 1204, the University of Paris condemned the doctrines of Amalric of Bena (or Amalric of Chartres) as heretical

Philippe Auguste, mid-14th century. The king reinstates the first privileges to the masters and students, in the year 1200

Education of the Virgin, c1773. Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard
Education of the Virgin, c1773

Guillaume Francois Riuelle, 18th century French chemist, 1874. Riuelle (1703-1770) was the teacher of Antoine Lavoisier, the French chemist who discovered oxygen

The Education of Achilles: Chariot Racing, mid-late 17th century. Artist: Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
The Education of Achilles: Chariot Racing, mid-late 17th century. Led by a centaur, the young Achilles drives a chariot pulled by four white horses in an arena

Le Dressage, early 19th century. Artist: Theodore Gericault
Le Dressage, early 19th century. A man training (breaking) a horse with a docked tail. From the Department of Drawings, Louvre, Paris

The Education of Achilles: The Riding Lesson, 17th century. Artist: Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
The Education of Achilles: The Riding Lesson, 17th century. Achilles riding master is a centaur, a legendary creature with the body of a horse and the torso of a man

Saint Benoit instructs the children, 19th century. Card produced by the chocolate factory at the Trappist monastery of Aiguebelle in France

Drunken Silenus, 1747. Artist: Carle Vanloo
Drunken Silenus, 1747. In classical myth, Silenus is the teacher and friend of Bacchus, god of wine. In Renaissance art he is depicted as fat, drunk and naked, a bloated lord of the revels

The Drunken Silenus, 17th century. Artist: Moses van Uyttenbroeck
The Drunken Silenus, 17th century. In classical myth, Silenus is the teacher and friend of Bacchus, god of wine. In Renaissance art he is depicted as fat, drunk and naked

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

The School. Artist: Brouwer, Adriaen (c. 1605-1638)
The School. Found in the collection of Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Children at a Church Door, Between 1817 and 1845. Artist: Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint (1792-1845)
Children at a Church Door, Between 1817 and 1845. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

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

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