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Boarding School Education, or the Frenchified Young Lady (BM J,5.79)

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Boarding School Education, or the Frenchified Young Lady (BM J,5.79)

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Satire on fashionable female education: a young woman dances while her dancing master plays on a small fiddle (a kit); an older, very fat, woman, dances beside him; all have elaborate hairstyles. In the foreground a monkey plays with a bow on a sword while a puppy dances in its hind legs. 19 October 1771
Etching with hand-colouring

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1771
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