LA VIEILLE MÉTHODE. / - Ah! drôle, vous passerez donc toute votre vie à mettre des queues de papier au séant des mouches! . . . . avancez moi votre main tout de suite, et ne la retirez que quand je vous en octroirai la permission! . . . . (THE OLD METHOD. / - Ah! how very funny, so you are planning to spend the rest of your life tying paper tails to the back of some flies! . . . . let me see your hands right now, and you'll only pull them back, when I tell you so! . . . .), pl. 2 from the series Professeurs et Moutards (Teachers and students) from the journal Le Charivari

December 8, 1845

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 13/16 in. (24.8 × 32.5 cm)
Credit Line: University Purchase, Carl A. Lohmann Fund
Accession Number: 1959.6.3
Culture: French
Period: 19th century
Classification: Prints
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caricatures, daily life, human figures (visual works), interior, lithographs, lithography, wove paper

caps (headgear), classrooms, desks, misbehavior, punishing, schools, students, teachers

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