Object number
TN.2008.1803
Title
Boys Going to School
Date
1804 - 1804
Creator
Material
Size
w x ht: 37 x 46 cm
Description
Placard with 7 different scenes; boys going to school, hoop, archery, cricket, dogs fighting, top, top and kite/ 'Friendship ah what is friendship but a name a charm that lulls to sleep a shade that fallows wealth or fame but leaves the wretch to weep. Prosperity gains friends and adversity tries them. O death thou pleasing and of human woe thou are for life thou greatest good lelow still ma it thou fly the coward & the slave and they soft slumvery only lilefs the brave'./ ' Robert young christmas 1804'.
No.42 in top right corner
Display caption
DRAFT ENTRIES BY JILL SHEFRIN FOR THE SIX WRITING BLANKS/SCHOOL PIECES HELD BY THE MCC MUSEUM (TEXT © JILL SHEFRIN 2022):
YOUTHFUL AMUSEMENTS. London. Printed for Bowles & Carver. No. 69 St. Paul’s Church Yard. [MCC TN.2008.1803
Sheet (46 × 37 cm.) printed from a copperplate. Series no.: (upper right) No. 42. Filled in by Robert Young in 1804.
Seven captioned images illustrate juvenile pastimes and a school. At head of sheet: Boys Going to School;” at left: “Kite;” “Top;” “Dogs Fighting;” at right: “Hoop;” “Archery;” “Cricket.” Signature space delineated by ???
Object name
Object Category
