The Village School by Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company
The Village School by Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print of a 19th Century schoolroom scene. The schoolmaster is asleep at his desk while the students are engaged in a variety of misdeeds: fighting with each other, turning the clock ahead, drawing a caricature of the teacher, etc.
- The lithograph was produced circa 1870 by Burrow-Giles Lithography Company in New York. The company is most noted as the defendant in a noted 1874 Supreme Court case, Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company v. Napoleon Sarony, concerning photographic copyright..
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- chromolithograph
- Object Type
- Chromolithograph
- date made
- ca 1870
- maker
- Burrow-Giles Lith. Company
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 11 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 46.99 cm
- overall: 13 in x 20 in; 33.02 cm x 50.8 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2423
- catalog number
- 60.2423
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Education
- Communication, newspapers
- Children
- Furnishings
- Comic prints
- Architecture, Educational Buildings
- Clocks
- Holidays and Celebrations, general
- Games
- Heating
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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